Understand Percent: example 6.7

Among a group of business leaders, $77%$ believe that poor math and science education in the U.S. will lead to higher unemployment rates.

Convert the percent to: ⓐ a fraction ⓑ a decimal

Work it out on paper first. Then open the solution one step at a time, and stop as soon as you can finish on your own.

Your turn

The book's Try It right after this example: same idea, new numbers. Only the answer is given.

Convert the percent to: ⓐ a fraction and ⓑ a decimal

Twitter's share of web traffic jumped $24%$ when one celebrity tweeted live on air.

How did it go?

ⓐ
	$77%$
Write as a ratio with denominator 100.	$\frac{77}{100}$

ⓑ
	$\frac{77}{100}$
Change the fraction to a decimal by dividing the numerator by the denominator.	$0.77$