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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

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There are 88 marbles in a bin and 25% of them are red.  How many marbles are red?

88 x 0.25 = 22 marbles

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

10% of 50

What is 5

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Taco Bell has 7249 locations in the United States.  California has 836 of those 7249 stores.  About what percent of Taco Bell's U.S. stores are located in California?

836/7249 is roughly equal to the decimal 0.115 which equals 11.5%.

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68% as a decimal
What is .68
300
36% as a fraction
What is 36/100 = 9/25
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3.4 as percent
What is 340%
300

20% of 70

What is 14

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A basketball team takes 26 foul shots during a game and makes 14 of them.  What percent is this?

14/26 is equal to about 0.538 which equals 53.8%.

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45% as a decimal
What is .45
400

40% as a fraction

What is 40/100= 2/5

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0.23 as percent
What is 23%
400

30% of 40

What is 12

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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 = about 138

500
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 24

500

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%