Question

What is $\dfrac{17}{100}$ equal to?

Answer 1

Hint: As we know that per hundred represents the percentage. In this question we will convert the given fraction into percentage as well as in decimal form. To convert into percentage we will just multiply the fraction by 100 and add a percentage sign. To convert the given fraction into decimal we just solve the division.

Complete step by step solution:
We have been given a fraction $\dfrac{17}{100}$.
We have to simplify the given fraction.
Now, it is not mentioned in the question that either we have to convert the fraction into percentage form or decimal form. So we will convert the given fraction first into percentage form then in decimal form.
We know that per hundred is the mean percentage.
Now, we have $\dfrac{17}{100}$ and we know that $1\%=\dfrac{1}{100}$
So we will get
$\Rightarrow \dfrac{17}{100}=17\%$
Now, to convert the given fraction into decimal form we will divide the fraction.
Then we will get
$\Rightarrow \dfrac{17}{100}=0.17$

Note: The point to be noted is that we can easily convert the fraction with denominator 100 in decimal by just putting the decimal after two digits from the right side. If the denominator is not 100 then try to convert the denominator to 100 by multiplying some number to the numerator and denominator and then we can easily convert the fraction into decimal.