One half (1/2) can be expressed as 0.5 as adecimal and 50% as a percent.
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You make 1 percent to a decimal which is .01(You make it into a decimal by dividing 1 by 100) then you make 1/2 percent into a decimal which is 0.5. Then you multiply .01 and .5 and it equals 0.005.
One half of a percent as a decimal is expressed as .005 Percent is out of 100 or 1 in most cases. 99 cents equal 1 dollar, so one HALF of ONE percent is .005 because one out of 100 = .01 so half of that would be .005 because .005 + .005 = .01
To find half of a percent of 500,000, first convert half of a percent to a decimal by dividing 0.5 by 100, which equals 0.005. Then multiply 500,000 by 0.005 to get the answer. Therefore, half of a percent of 500,000 is 2,500.
0.125 (this also happens to be 1/8 as a fraction)
One half of one percent = 0.005