PercentPercent → decimal
Name: Date:
Write each percent as a decimal.
13% =
233% =
331% =
421% =
581% =
649% =
718% =
889% =
Percent to decimal worksheets
A percent is a number out of a hundred, so turning it into a decimal is undoing that hundred: 45% is 0.45. These free printable worksheets practice that one direction — percent to decimal — until it is automatic.
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Percent to decimal
The answer key prints on a separate page.
What's on this sheet
The rule is to move the decimal point two places to the left, because percent means hundredths: 45% is 45 hundredths, which is 0.45. Saying why rather than only how is what keeps a child from moving it the wrong way — the number gets smaller, because a part of a hundred is less than a whole one.
Why this sheet works
Whole-percent, tens, and single-digit percents all appear, and the ones that catch people out are drawn in on purpose. 5% is 0.05, not 0.5 — the missing tens place has to be filled with a zero — and 100% is exactly 1. A page of only two-digit percents would hide both, so the sheet spreads across the cases where the zero-holding actually matters.
How this one works
One question from this sheet, worked through a step at a time.
3% as a decimal
3%=3/100
0.03
- 3% means 3 out of a hundred.
- 3 hundredths written as a decimal is 0.03.