How do you write 65.6 percent as a fraction?

Answer 1

656/1000 = 82/125 in its lowest terms

Percent means simply to "divide by 100" so what we really have is 65.6/100, or 656/1000. Move the decimal place to the right to remove it from the numerator, and then add the same number of place values to the denominator. In this case, we moved the decimal one space to the right from 65.6 to 656, so we added one place value to the denominator as well (100 became 1000). Now you can simplify or reduce as you normally would.

656 = 24 x 41

1000 = 23 x 53

The greatest common factor is 23 so divide both by 8: 82/125. 65.6% = 82/125