Predict the result
Convert fifty five percent to a fraction in lowest terms.

Set up the model
Percent means per one hundred.
Simplify the numerator and denominator by their common factor.

Work the example
Write fifty five over one hundred and divide both by five.
The simplified fraction is eleven twentieths.

Check the result
Now convert seven point four percent to a decimal.
Take eight seconds to think before the answer appears.
[Eight-second silent pause to work; the answer remains hidden.]
The decimal is zero point zero seven four.

Interpret the result
Dividing a percent by one hundred changes its form without changing the share.