What is the decimal equivalent of 1/5 of 1%?
The alternatives are as follows a. 0.2 b. 0.5 c. 0.02 and d. 0.002
The alternatives are as follows a. 0.2 b. 0.5 c. 0.02 and d. 0.002
1 Answer
Mar 9, 2018
See a solution process below:
Explanation:
"Percent" or "%" means "out of 100" or "per 100",
Therefore 1% can be written as
Additionally, in this context with fractions the word "of" means to multiply.
We can then write the expression as:
We can now multiply this by a form of
2 one-thousandths can be written as: 0.002 which is answer d) in the question.
