How do you express 75% as a reduced fraction?

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smendyka
May 31, 2018

See a solution process below:

Explanation:

"Percent" or "%" means "out of 100" or "per 100".

Therefore 75% can be written as 75/10075100.

We can reduce this as:

75/10 = (25 * 3)/(25 * 4) = (color(red)(cancel(color(black)(25))) * 3)/(color(red)(cancel(color(black)(25))) * 4) = 3/4

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