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What is 13% as a decimal?
What is .13
100

8% as a fraction

What is 8/100 = 2/25

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0.46 as percent
What is 46%
100

50% of 36

What is 18

100

There are 90 marbles in a bin and 40% of them are red.  How many marbles are red?

88 x 0.25 = 22 marbles

200
7% as a decimal.
What is .07
200
50% as a fraction
What is 50/100 = 1/2
200
.08 as percent
What is 8%
200

10% of 50

What is 5

200

Taco Bell has more than 7000 locations in the United States. California has 700 of those 7000 stores.  About what percent of Taco Bell's U.S. stores are located in California?

700 is 10% of 7000

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68% as a decimal
What is .68
300
36% as a fraction
What is 36/100 = 9/25
300

0.34 as percent

What is 34%

300

20% of 70

What is 14

300

A basketball team takes 25 foul shots during a game and makes 14 of them.  What percent is this?

14/25 is equal to about 56/100 which equals 56%.

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45% as a decimal
What is .45
400

40% as a fraction

What is 40/100= 2/5

400

0.9 as percent

What is 90%

400

30% of 40

What is 12

400

A soccer team has won 7/20 of the soccer matches. What percentage have they lost? (assume no games ended in a tie)

7/20 is equal to the decimal 0.35 which is 35%.  They won 35% of their games.  To find out the percent that they have lost, subtract 35% from 100% to get 65%.

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120% as a decimal
What is 1.20
500
75% as a fraction
What is 75/100 = 3/4
500
0.068 as percent
What is 6.8%
500

55% of 32

What is 17.6

500

In a bag of M & M's, about 25% of the candies are blue.  In a bag of 550 candies, about how many are blue?

550 x 0.25 = 137.5, but it is unreasonable to have 0.5 of a candy. ABOUT 138 candies in the bag are blue.