Percents
Introduction to Percentages
Writing percentages
As you saw in the slideshow, every percentage has two parts: a number and the percent sign (%). When you write a percentage, you'll write the number first, then the percent sign. Let's try it! How would you write this percentage?
nine percent
First, we'll write the number, nine, and then the percent sign (%). So our percentage will look like this:
9%
Now it's your turn! Try writing the correct percentage in the box.
Reading percentages
When you read a percentage out loud, you'll need to read two parts: the number and the percent sign (%). Let's look at an example:
25%
25% is twenty five out of one hundred. We'd read 25% like this:
twenty-five percent
Sometimes percentages might have a decimal. For example:
7.5%
Here, 7.5% means we have seven-and-a-half out of one hundred. We'd read it like this:
seven point five percent
OR
seven and a half percent
You can read any percentage with a decimal point like this. How about 10.25%? That's ten and one quarter out of one hundred, so we'd read it as ten point two five percent, or ten and a quarter percent.
Now you try it! Try reading each of the percentages below aloud.