SOLUTION: How do I turn .6% into a fraction? Everywhere I look for instructions it says .6 and out it over ten and reduce etc. but when I Siri what the answer is I get a different answer. I

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Question 990866: How do I turn .6% into a fraction? Everywhere I look for instructions it says .6 and out it over ten and reduce etc. but when I Siri what the answer is I get a different answer. I don't just need the answer, I'd like to know how to solve the problem as well please.
Found 2 solutions by macston, ikleyn:
Answer by macston(5194) About Me  (Show Source):
You can put this solution on YOUR website!
0.6 percent
To start, the percent means "per one hundred".
so divide by 100:
0.6/100=0.006
The third place to the right of the decimal is 1000ths,
so put the number over 1000:
006/1000 Leading zeroes dont count, so:
6/1000=3/500
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You can put 06 over 10 and have 6/10 percent or 3/5 percent
Then to clear the percent sign, divide by 100:
6/1000=3/500
Same answer.

Answer by ikleyn(52817) About Me  (Show Source):
You can put this solution on YOUR website!
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1% is  1%2F100  by the definition.

0.6%  is  0.6%2F100 = 0.006,  correspondingly.