Question

Fill in the blank :

$5\%$ as a decimal $=$ …………….. .

Answer 1

$5\%$ can be written as $\frac{5}{100}$

Note: If a number is divided by $100$, then the decimal point is moved from right to left by $2$ places.

If the number of digits in the numerator is less than the number of zeroes the denominator has, then zeroes should be included before the numerator such that the number of digits of the numerator should be equal to the number of zeroes in the denominator.

Here, $\frac{5}{100}$ can be represented as $\frac{05}{100}$.

( keep decimal point before $2$ places in the numerator )

Therefore, $\frac{5}{100}$$=$$\frac{05}{100}$$=$$0.05$

Hence, the answer for the given blank is $0.05$.