Question

Express each of the following as a decimal:

$12.8\%$

Answer 1

Finding the percent number in decimal form

We have,$12.8\%$

To remove the percent sign, we divide it by 100

$12.8\%=\frac{12.8}{100}=0.128$ (we preceded the decimal with the number of digits the number of zeroes in the denominator)

Hence, the decimal form of $12.8\%$ is $0.128$