1. Percentages compare a portion to a whole amount.
What else compares a portion to a whole amount?
Ratio's and fractions
2. The whole amount is represented by 100%
What is a whole amount represented by in decimal number?
And in fractions?
Decimal: 1.0 Fractions: a fraction where the numerator = the denominator
3. % is read as per cent which means 'in every Hundred'
Can you write 3% as a fraction? What about a decimal number?
3% = 3% = 0.03