Intro To Proportions

This lesson covers:

  1. What the term 'proportion' means 
  2. Common equivalent fractions, decimals and percentages 

What is 10% expressed as a decimal? 

0.1

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Which two of the following proportions are equivalent?

0.4

30%

1/4

0.3

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What is 0.5 expressed as a fraction? Give your answer in its simplest form.

\frac{1}{2}

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Which two of the following proportions are equivalent? 

0.2

1/5

0.4

50%

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What is 20% expressed as a decimal? 

0.2

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Which two of the following proportions are equivalent? 

1/8

0.125

1/5

0.333

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31​

Express the above fraction as a percentage.

(Give you answer to 3 significant figures) 

33.3

%

%

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What is 85% expressed as a decimal? 

0.85

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What is 40% expressed as a fraction? Give the fraction in its simplest form.

\frac{2}{5}

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