How Do You Turn a Decimal into a Percent?

15% can be rewritten as the fraction 15/100
To go from a decimal to a percent, we need to multiply the decimal by 100
Multiplying by 100 is the same as moving the decimal two places to the right
If you get a blank space when you move the decimal, fill in a 0 as a placeholder
Put a percent symbol after each number to indicate that it's a percent

1. "Percent" means "per 100"
2. So 15% is the same as writing 15 over 100
1. Multiplication and division are inverse operations
2. So since we divided the value of the percent by 100 to get the decimal, we need to do the opposite to switch it back
3. This means we need to multiply the decimal by 100 to get the value of the percent
1. To go from a decimal to a percent, we need to multiply each decimal by 100
1. The percent sign shows that the values we found are something per 100
2. Remember: 0.98 is NOT the same as 98 - it is the same as 98%

Convert these decimals into percents: 0.98, 22.76, 0.12568, 0.7