Free interactive math game: % to Decimal — Conversion. Part of the Percentages category on MathKite.
Taken from the generator that powers this exercise. A fresh set appears every time the page is opened, and the printable worksheet holds ten of them.
Turning a percentage back into a decimal.
Divide by 100, which slides the decimal point two places to the left. Padding with a zero helps when the percentage has only a single digit.
42 percent becomes 0.42, and 7 percent becomes 0.07 once the gap is padded.
Forgetting the padding zero. Seven percent is 0.07, while 0.7 would be seventy percent.