What is 39.5% written as a fraction in simplest form?

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Answer 1 · 2018-04-24T13:22:29

$\frac{39.5}{100}$ $(39.5)/(100)$

$39.5 % = 0.395 = \frac{39.5}{100}$ $39.5%=0.395=(39.5)/(100)$

Answer 2 · 2018-04-24T13:58:40

$\frac{79}{200}$ $79/200$

Convert the percentage into a fraction of 100:

$39.5 % = \frac{39.5}{100}$ $39.5%=39.5/100$

Multiply the both fraction by ten, so that the decimal is gone:

$\frac{39.5 \cdot 10}{100 \cdot 10} = \frac{395}{1000}$ $(39.5*10)/(100*10) = 395/1000$

Then simplify the fraction by dividing the numerator and denominator by 5:

$395$ $395$ / $5$ $5$ = $79$ $79$
$1000$ $1000$ / $5$ $5$ = $200$ $200$

So at the end we got : $\frac{79}{200}$ $79/200$

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