How do you convert 7/12 into a decimal and percent?

3 Answers
Jun 18, 2018

Decimal value - 0.583333333
Percent value - 58.33%

Explanation:

So to convert 7/12 into a decimal, you divide 7 by 12 which gives us 0.583333333.

So to convert it to a percent, we can take the decimal value and convert it to a percentage but, we need to move the dot by 2 places which gives us: 58.33%

Jun 18, 2018

(58.bar(33))/100 & 0.58bar(33)

Explanation:

To convert a fraction into a decimal/percent, it helps to make it have a denominator of 100. We can essentially set up the following ratio:

7/12=x/100

We can cross multiply to get

(7*100)/12

Which simplifies to 58.bar(33)

This means 7/12 is equivalent to (58.bar(33))/100.

When we have a fraction with a denominator of 100, the numerator gives us the percent, since the word "percent" literally means per 100.

This means the fraction is 58.bar(33)%.

We can loop this value twice to the left (same as dividing by 100) to find the decimal equivalent. We get

0.58bar(33)

Hope this helps!

Jun 18, 2018

Decimal = 0.583...
Percetange = 58.33...%

Explanation:

Well, there are two ways to find it out:

Method one:

To find out the decimal of a fraction you must do 7//12. So if you do 7 divided by 12.
This gives you: 0.5833... We can just make this 0.58

So the answer would be 0.58 for the decimal one.

Now for the percentage, you will just have to do 58%
(because that is 58 hundredths and the highest is 100%

Hope this helped!

You can also just put a dot over the 3 to show that it is reccuring.