Video Transcript
Convert 250 percent to fraction
form.
We need to remember here that
percent means per 100. So, we now write 250 percent in
fraction form out of 100, 250 as the numerator, 100 as the denominator. This is one of the fraction
forms of 250 percent, but we want the simplest fraction form of 250 percent,
which means we’re going to need to reduce again. Let’s start by dividing the
numerator and the denominator by 10. We’re left with 25 over 10 as
another fraction form of 250 out of 100, but it’s still not the simplest form of
this fraction because we recognize that both 25 and 10 are divisible by
five. When we do that we get
five-halves, or five over two as the simplest fraction form.
Sometimes though, we don’t just
want the simplest fraction form. We might want to write
five-halves as a mixed number. In that case, I would break up
the number into different parts, one part being four over two and another part
being one-half. The mixed number for
five-halves is two and one-half.
