SOLUTION: i need to know how to change 65% into a fraction and a decimal

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Question 493204: i need to know how to change 65% into a fraction and a decimal
Answer by MathLover1(20850) About Me  (Show Source):
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% if you analyze this symbol, you will notice / and 2 small zeros; all that representing division by 100
In mathematics, a percentage is a way of expressing a number as a fraction of 100 (per cent meaning “per hundred” in Latin)

so, you have:
65% =65%2F100=0.65