Exercise 32 Page 239

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.

We found a pattern in the given quotient! 22÷ 9 = 2.444... We can write this repeating pattern as 2.4. 22÷ 9 = 2.4 We found that 229 expressed as a decimal is 2.4.

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 2.4 expressed as a percent is 244.4 %.