To write a percent as a decimal, move the decimal point two places to the left and remove the percent symbol.
Decimal: 0.39 Model:
Practice makes perfect
Fractions, decimals, and percents are three ways to show parts of a whole. We want to write a percent as a decimal. Let's do these things one at a time.To write a percent as a decimal, we ignore the percent symbol and move the decimal point two places to the left.
We found that 39 % expressed as a decimal is 0.39. We can also use a model to represent this number.