Ellie
6th grade level
parent/teacher asking
Please explain how a percentage like 83.3% is changed into a fractions. The answer given is 5/6 and I changed 83.3% to a regular decimal of .833, which would be 833/1000. How do they get 5/6 from that? HELP
Thank you.
Ellie Hopf
Hi Ellie,The given "answer" is incorrect -- .833 does NOT equal 5/6. Should anybody disagree with you, just offer that person the following deal:
You will come out $333.33 ahead.
If you want to write 5/6 as a percentage,
you can write it 83.33...% (where the three dots mean "and so on"); the
same thing is often written as 
where a bar over the last 3 that means
that the 3 is repeated forever.
Chris