What is 10% as a decimal?
A decimal number can be defined as a number whose whole number part and the fractional part is separated by a decimal point.
Answer: 10% as a decimal is equal to 0.1
Let's look into the two methods to write 10% as a decimal.
Explanation:
Method 1: Writing 10% as a decimal using the division method
To convert any x percent to fraction, we just write x percent = x/100
Here, the fraction is 10/100 which means we need to perform 10 ÷ 100
This gives the answer as 0.1. So, 10% as a decimal is 0.1
Method 2: Writing 10% as a decimal by converting the denominator to powers of 10
Step 1: Find a number such that we can multiply by the denominator of the fraction to make it 10 or 100 or 1000 and so on.
Step 2: Multiply both numerator and denominator by that number to convert it into it's an equivalent fraction.
Step 3: Then write down just the numerator, putting the decimal point in the correct place, that is, one space from the right-hand side for every zero in the denominator.
10% = (10 × 1) / (100 × 1) = 10/100 = 0.1
Irrespective of the methods used, the answer to 10% as a decimal will always remain the same.
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