Exercise 2 Page 236

Fractions, decimals, and percents are three ways to show parts of a whole. We want to write a percent as a decimal. First, notice the line on top of 6 in the given expression. 12.6% Recall that this line represents a repeating pattern. 12.6%=12.666666... % Now, 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 12.6 % expressed as a decimal is 0.126. We can also use a model to represent this number.