Writing a percentage as a fraction

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1
Write 24% as a fraction in its lowest terms.
2
Write 8% as a fraction in its lowest terms.
3
Write 35% as a fraction in its lowest terms.
4
Write 80% as a fraction in its lowest terms.
5
Write 12% as a fraction in its lowest terms.
6
Write 24% as a fraction in its lowest terms.
7
Write 35% as a fraction in its lowest terms.
8
Write 4% as a fraction in its lowest terms.
9
Write 80% as a fraction in its lowest terms.
10
Write 4% as a fraction in its lowest terms.
11
Write 24% as a fraction in its lowest terms.
12
Write 8% as a fraction in its lowest terms.
13
Write 40% as a fraction in its lowest terms.
14
Write 4% as a fraction in its lowest terms.
15
Write 8% as a fraction in its lowest terms.
16
Write 24% as a fraction in its lowest terms.
17
Write 8% as a fraction in its lowest terms.
18
Write 24% as a fraction in its lowest terms.
19
Write 80% as a fraction in its lowest terms.
20
Write 4% as a fraction in its lowest terms.

What is in this set

The numbers in this set run from 4 to 80.
A careful solution takes 2 written steps on average.
The mistake this set invites most often, in 100% of the problems: right value, but 80/100 is not in its lowest terms.
Answers are a fraction in its lowest terms, written like 3/4.

Drawing 240 problems from this page produced 9 different ones, 4% — so a sheet of 20 will come back to a problem you have seen — there are only so many sensible ones of this kind.

The same skill, harder or easier

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11 skills in this topic, 33 sets between them.

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