Question

Helene spends 25% of her budget on transportation expenses. What is this percent as a decimal and as a fraction in simplest form?

Answer 1

See a solution process below:

Explanation:

"Percent" or "%" means "out of 100" or "per 100".

Therefore 25% can be written as `25/100`.

We can write this as a decimal: `0.25`

The we can reduce the fraction to its simplest form as::

`25/(25 xx 4) => color(red)(cancel(color(black)(25)))/(color(red)(cancel(color(black)(25))) xx 4) => 1/4`