Question

Half of 1 percent written as decimal is
A) 5
B) 0.5
C) 0.05
D) 0.005

Answer 1

Hint: Percentage means "out of one hundred. " Percentages can also be converted to fractions; for example , 100 percent is one , 75 percent is three-quarters , 50 percent is one-half and 25 percent is one-quarter . We can get the value of half of one percent by dividing 1 percent with 2.

Complete step by step answer:
We know that percentage means out of one hundred ,
which implies 1 percent is 1 out of hundred
=> 1 percent of hundred = ( 1/100 )
By solving ( 1/100) into decimal form we get 0.01
Which implies 1 percent of hundred that is 1 percent in decimal is 0.01
Now we need to find the value of half of one percent
that is $\dfrac{{(\dfrac{1}{{100}})}}{2}$ = ( 1/200 )
Now converting ( 1/200 ) into decimal form we get 0.005
So the answer is 0.005 which is the decimal form of half of one percent ( out of hundred )

So, the correct answer is “Option D”.

Note: We can also find the decimal form of half of one percent in another process. That is after finding the decimal form of one percent , we can find half of one percent by either dividing the decimal form of one percent with 2 or we can first divide the fraction form of one percent and then converting into decimal. The second process is done in the solution, the first process will be as follows:
We got that the decimal form of 1 percent as 0.01
Now by dividing it by 2 we get ,
( 0.01/2 ) = ( 0.005 )
Either way, the answer is the same.