Big Ideas Math: Modeling Real Life, Grade 7
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1. Fractions, Decimals and Percents
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Exercise 16 Page 237

To write a fraction as a decimal, divide the numerator by the denominator. To write a decimal as a percent, multiply by 100 and add the percent symbol.

Decimal: 1.13
Percent: 113.3 %.

Practice makes perfect

Fractions, decimals, and percents are three ways to show parts of a whole. We want to write a fraction as a decimal and as a percent. Let's do these things one at a time.

Decimal

To write a fraction as a decimal, we divide the numerator by the denominator.
division
We found a pattern in the given quotient! 17÷ 15 = 1.1333... We can write this repeating pattern as 1.13. 17÷ 15 = 1.13 We found that 1715 expressed as a decimal is 1.13.

Percent

To write a fraction as a percent, we can use the equivalent decimal. To write a decimal as a percent, we multiply by 100 and add the percent symbol %.
We found that 1.13 expressed as a percent is 113.3 %.