# How do you convert 3/20 into a decimal and percent?

How do you convert 3/20 into a decimal and percent?
You can still ask an expert for help

• Questions are typically answered in as fast as 30 minutes

Solve your problem for the price of one coffee

• Math expert for every subject
• Pay only if we can solve it

trisanualb6
Divide the numerator by the denominator to change to a decimal. Then multiply the decimal by 100% to change to a percent.
$\frac{3}{20}=0.15$
$0.15×100\mathrm{%}=15\mathrm{%}$
Percent is parts per hundred so the numerator of a number with 100 as the denominator is the percent .
$\frac{3}{20}×\frac{5}{5}=\frac{15}{100}$ so
$\frac{3}{20}=15\mathrm{%}$

sonorous9n
Method 1: Writing 3/20 as a decimal using the division method.
To convert any fraction to decimal form, we just need to divide its numerator by denominator.
Here, the fraction is 3/20 which means we need to perform $3÷20$.
This gives the answer as 0.15. So 3/20 as a decimal is 0.15
Method 2: Writing 3/20 as a decimal by converting the denominator to powers of 10.
Step 1: Find a number that we can multiply by the denominator of the fraction to make it 10 or 100 or 1000 and so on.
Step 2: Multiply both numerator and denominator by that number to convert it into its equivalent fraction.
Step 3: Then write down just the numerator, putting the decimal point in the correct place, that is, one space from the right-hand side for every zero in the denominator.
$\frac{3}{20}=\frac{3×5}{20×5}=\frac{15}{100}=0.15$
Irrespective of the methods used, the answer to 3/20 as a decimal will always remain the same.