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NUMBERS • DIFFERENT WAYS TO DESCRIBE FRACTIONS 75

Common fractions, decimals, and percentages

This table shows the different ways we can show or write the same fraction.

10%

12.5%

20%

25%

30%

33%

40%

50%

60%

75%

ONE-TENTH

ONE-EIGHTH

ONE-FIFTH

ONE-QUARTER

THREE-TENTHS

ONE-THIRD

TWO-FIFTHS

ONE-HALF

THREE-FIFTHS

THREE-QUARTERS

1

10

1 8 1 5 1 4 3

10

1 3 2 5 1 2 3 5 3 4

0. 
   

0. 
   

0. 
   

0. 
   

0. 
   

0. 
   

0. 
   

0. 
   

0. 
   

0. 
   

1

125

2

25

3

33

4

5

6

75

Part of a

whole

Part of

a group

Fraction

in words

Fraction

in numbers

Decimal Percentage

The second number in the ratio
becomes the fraction’s denominator

How much do you know?

Try these baffling brainteasers and

see if you can get 100% right!

Write 0.35 as a

fraction. Don’t

forget to simplify it.

Write^3 ⁄ 100 as a

percentage,

then as a decimal.

TRY IT OUT

Answers on page 319

Write the ratio

4:6 as a fraction.

Now simplify it.

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