Question

Express the following percentage as decimal:

$2\%$

Answer 1

Here we can write $2\%$ as $\frac{2}{100}$ [Dividing its numerator and denominator by $2$]

we get,

$\frac{2÷2}{100÷2}=\frac{1}{50}$

and, $\frac{1}{50}=0.02$

Hence, we can write $2\%$ in the form of decimals is $0.02$