SOLUTION: write 2 6/100 as a decimal

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Question 1076383: write 2 6/100 as a decimal
Found 2 solutions by addingup, Edwin McCravy:
Answer by addingup(3677) About Me  (Show Source):
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Your calculator does it for you. Divide 26/100.

Answer by Edwin McCravy(20060) About Me  (Show Source):
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The other tutor thought you meant 26%2F100 
I think you mean the mixed number-fraction 

26%2F100

Two and six hundredths.

If so, write 2 and then a decimal, like this:

   2.

The first digit after the decimal tells how many
tenths you have.  But since you have no tenths, 
only hundredths, you put a 0 as the first digit
after the decimal, like this:

   2.0

That 0 shows you have no tenths.

Now, the second digit after the decimal tells how many
hundredths you have.  And that's what you have 6 of.  
You have 6 hundredths, so you put a 6 after the 0 which
you put for the tenths, and now you have this:

   2.06    <--final answer

That's the same as 26%2F100

They are both read "Two and six hundredths".

Edwin