How to Convert Percent to a Fraction

If you want to know how to convert percent to a fraction, you have to first know how to reduce fractions.  The steps are easy:

1. Drop the percent sign (%)
2. Write your percentage as the numerator of a fraction
3. Write the denominator of the fraction as 100 (always!)
4. Reduce your fraction

Take a look at a more user friendly explanation of how to do the converstion(more pictures!)

First, take your percentage:  In this case we'll use 98%.

98% becomes 98 (drop the percent sign)

Second, write a fraction bar with your number (98) on top.

Third, write 100 on the bottom of the fraction.

Fourth, reduce your fraction to lowest terms.

At first, learning to convert percent to a fraction may seem to take four long steps.  Don't worry, once you get the hang of it, it will seem like one quick and natural change.

Other conversions:  mixed number to a fraction & fraction to decimal

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