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How do you express 2.5% as a decimal?

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Hint:
Here we need to know that when we are given the number with the percent like n% we can write it as n100 in the fraction and now we can convert this fraction into the decimal as we know that when we divide any number with 10n we only need to shift the decimal from right to left in the numerator before the nth term from the right.

Complete step by step solution:
Here we are given the percentage which we need to convert into decimal. So let us first convert it into the fraction form. We need to know that when we are given the number with the percent like n% we can write it as n100 in the fraction as the percentage is calculated always with respect to 100.
So we can write 2.5%=2.5100.
Now we have got the fraction form of the 2.5% and now we can write it in the form of the decimal. For this, we need to know that when we divide any number with 10n we only need to shift the decimal from right to left in the numerator before the nth term from the right.
As we have got the fraction 2.5100.
Now if we compare 10n with the denominator that is 100=102 we will get n=2.
Now we need to shift the decimal in the numerator from the position where it is now towards the left 2 terms.
Now we know that in the numerator which is 2.5 the decimal is before 5 so from right to left we need to move two times from the decimal.
We can write:
2.5=002.5
Now we will get:
2.5100=002.5100=0.025

So we can write 2.5%=0.025 in the decimal form.

Note:
Here the student must remember that whenever we need to convert a fraction with the denominator as 10nwhere nZ,n>0 we just need to shift the decimal in the numerator from right to left till n terms.
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