document.write( "Question 300232: it says for percentages divide by 100 , what does that mean \n" ); document.write( "

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document.write( "25% means the same as  which reduces to \r\n" );
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document.write( "All three mean the same thing.\r\n" );
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document.write( "1. Twenty-five percent of a piece of pie.\r\n" );
document.write( "2. Twenty-five one hundredths of a piece of pie.\r\n" );
document.write( "3. One fourth of a piece of pie.\r\n" );
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document.write( "All those mean exactly the same thing.\r\n" );
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document.write( "The easy way to divide by 100 is to move the decimal two places to the left.\r\n" );
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document.write( "25% means 25.% [The decimal is invisible). Move the invisible decimal two\r\n" );
document.write( "places left and make it visible, take away the % symbol and you have  .25,\r\n" );
document.write( "which is the same thing as 25% and also the same thing as \r\n" );
document.write( "which is also the same thing as .\r\n" );
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