Praxis Core: 1,001 Practice Questions For Dummies
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When you confront a problem on the Praxis Core exam where you're converting a fraction to a percent (or vice versa), the important thing to remember is that "per cent" stands for "per 100."

In the following practice questions, you start by converting a percentage to a fraction and then simplify the result, and then you have to convert a mixed fraction to a percent.

Practice questions

  1. Which of the following is 42 percent in simplest fraction form?

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  2. Which of the following is

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    expressed as a percent?

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Answers and explanations

  1. The correct answer is Choice (C).

    First, write the percent as the fraction it represents. Remember that percent means "hundredths":

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    Then simplify the fraction by dividing the numerator and denominator by their greatest common factor, which is 2:

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  2. The correct answer is Choice (E).

    The first step is to write the mixed number as an improper fraction:

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    The next step is to write the improper fraction as a decimal by dividing the numerator by the denominator:

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    From decimal form, you can convert to percent form by moving the decimal two places to the right and putting a percent sign after the result. Remember that after the last nonzero digit after a decimal point, you can add as many zeros as you need to.

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Carla Kirkland, founder and CEO of the Kirkland Group, an educational consulting firm, has helped educators prepare their students for standardized tests for more than 20 years.

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