How Do You Turn a Decimal into a Percent?

How Do You Turn a Decimal into a Percent?

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Converting decimals into percents is easier than you may think! To convert a decimal to a percent, just move the decimal point to places to the right and put a percent sign at the end! To see it done, check out this tutorial!

Keywords:

  • decimals
  • percent
  • turn decimal into percent
  • multiply by 100
  • move decimal
  • two spots
  • right
  • two spots to the right

Background Tutorials

  • Find a percent of a quantity as a rate per 100 (e.g., 30% of a quantity means 30/100 times the quantity); solve problems involving finding the whole, given a part and the percent.

      • What's a Percent?What's a Percent?

      What's a Percent?

      Sales tax, tips at restaurants, grades on tests... no matter what you do, you can't run away from percents. So watch this tutorial and see once and for all what percents are all about!

Further Exploration

  • Find a percent of a quantity as a rate per 100 (e.g., 30% of a quantity means 30/100 times the quantity); solve problems involving finding the whole, given a part and the percent.

      • How Do You Turn a Percent into a Decimal?How Do You Turn a Percent into a Decimal?

      How Do You Turn a Percent into a Decimal?

      Percents and Decimals are just tools that let us represent numbers, and that is why percents can be converted into decimals, and decimals can be converted into percents. In this tutorial you'll see how quickly you can convert percents into decimals!