SOLUTION: My son's homework asks to convert 13/200 to decimal and closest whole percent. My son converted it to 0.065 as a decimal and 7% since it asks to round to the Nearest Whole Percent.

Question 1136946: My son's homework asks to convert 13/200 to decimal and closest whole percent. My son converted it to 0.065 as a decimal and 7% since it asks to round to the Nearest Whole Percent. His teacher insists it is 6.5%.
I don't understand why is it 6.5%. What am I missing?

Answer by josgarithmetic(39621) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!

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Nearest whole Percent?
0.065 is 6.5 percent. The two nearest whole numbers below and above this are 6 and 7.
We in this case round UP to 7; because the fractional part is the digit 5; if it were less than 5, we would round downward.
Therefore, nearest whole percent is 7.
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