6th Grade Math Textbook, Progress

Percents Less Than 1%

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Express each as a percent.

0 1. 0.001 0 2. 0.0026 0 3. 0 4. 0 5. 0 6.

0 7. 0.0031 0 8. 0 9. 0.0006 10. 11. 12.

35

10,000

5

8000

3

4000

1

200

2

500

4

2000

1

800

3

1000

Sometimes a percent is less than 1%.

A group of 600 students takes a test. Only

3 students get a perfect score. What percent

of the group gets a perfect score?

To find the percent, rename as an equivalent percent.

0.00. 5 
0.5%

So 0.5% of the group gets a perfect score.

You can use the meaning of percent to rename a

decimal or fraction as an equivalent percent less than 1%.

0.25%
0.25 100 
0.0025
 

^14 %
 
^14  
^14  

Study these examples.

1

400

1

100

100

1

1

400

25

10,000

0.005

600 
 3 .0 0  0 

3

600

% means per hundred.

0.5% or ^12 % means

^12 of 1 out of 100.

100

Write 0.15% as an equivalent fraction.

0.15%
0.15 100 
0.0015

So 0.15%
 20003.

3

2000

15

10,000

Write^18 % as an equivalent decimal.

^18 %
 
^18 

So ^18 %
0.00125.

0.00125

800 
 1 .0 0  0  0  0 

1

800

100

1

3

600

^14 



1

8  

1

800

1

100

100

^1

8



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