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Lesson

Title: Convert Percentage into a Decimal

Grade: 8-a Lesson: S4-L1

Explanation: Hello Students, time to learn definitions. Let us take turns and read definitions and explain the pictures. Try to remember or memorize the definitions. Pay special attention to the pictures and communicate in your own words.

Lesson:

Definition: Percentage

The percentage is a fraction or a ratio in which the value of the whole (denominator) is always 100.

Here % is the symbol of percentage and is read as percent or percentage.

This percent symbol can always be replaced with divided by 100 to convert it into a fraction or decimal equivalent.

$1$

Explanation: Shift the decimal point two places to the left. In this example, 3.9 % = 0.039

Definition: Decimal

Decimals are one of the types of numbers, which has a whole number and the fractional part separated by a decimal point.

The dot present between the whole number and fractions part is called the decimal point.

$2$

Explanation: 10.23 is a decimal number. Here 10 is a whole number part, and 23 is the fractional part.