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I am working a problem of turning 4/32% into a decimal and rounding to the nearest thousandth. I know the math works out to 12.5% but were I get lost in getting to the answer which is .00125. How do I know how many place to move the decimal back?
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document.write( "Maybe you're confusing  with %\r\n" );
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document.write( "Here is  as a decimal\r\n" );
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document.write( "    .125\r\n" );
document.write( "32)4.000\r\n" );
document.write( "   3 2\r\n" );
document.write( "     80\r\n" );
document.write( "     64\r\n" );
document.write( "     160\r\n" );
document.write( "     160 \r\n" );
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document.write( "But it has a percent mark after it, so it is .125%.  To change a percent \r\n" );
document.write( "to a decimal you must move the decimal two places LEFT, so to\r\n" );
document.write( "do that you get .00125.\r\n" );
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