Question

When George was buying a house he had to put down apercentage of 20%. What is this number in the form of adecimal?

Answer 1

We can express 20% in form of decimal taking into account that 1 is equivalent to 100%, so 20% is:

$\frac{20\text{ \%}}{100\text{ \%}}=0.20$

The decimal expression for 20% is 0.20.