Predict the result
Convert twenty five percent to a fraction and a decimal.
What does percent mean?

Set up the model
Percent means per one hundred.
Write twenty five percent as twenty five over one hundred.

Work the example
Divide both twenty five and one hundred by twenty five.
The simplified fraction is one fourth.
Divide one by four to get zero point two five.
The fraction and decimal have the same value.

Check the result
Now convert thirty percent to a fraction and a decimal.
Take eight seconds to think before the answers appear.
[Eight-second silent pause to work; the answer remains hidden.]
The simplified fraction is three tenths.
The decimal is zero point three.

Interpret the result
One fourth, zero point two five, and twenty five percent describe the same quantity.
Divide the percent number by one hundred to get its decimal value.