Question

Express the following percentage as decimal:

$7\frac{1}{2}\%$

Answer 1

Here we can write $7\frac{1}{2}\%$ =$\frac{15}{2}\%$ as $\frac{15}{200}$ [Dividing its numerator and denominator by $3$]

we get,

$\frac{15÷5}{200÷5}=\frac{3}{40}$

and, $\frac{3}{40}=0.075$

Hence, we can write $7\frac{1}{2}\%$ in the form of decimals as $0.075$