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What Percent is 0.7?


Date: 6/12/96 at 22:2:25
From: Anonymous
Subject: Percents

What percent is 0.7?  Is it 70 percent?


Date: 6/12/96 at 23:2:16
From: Doctor Jodi
Subject: Re: percents

Hi there!

You're right, it's 70 percent.

You can think of the percent sign as standing for a denominator 
of 100.  So in order to express something as a percent, you can
first write it as a fraction over 100.   

.7, or 7/10, is equivalent to 70/100 or 70 percent.

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