Question

What is -3/8 as a decimal and as a percent?

Answer 1

@itsthatguy

Answer 2

Plug -3 / 8 into your calculator to get the decimal.

Answer 3

What do you get?

Answer 4

as a percentage, you get -37.5%

Answer 5

Ok, how do I make it into a decimal? Do I have to divide them?

Answer 6

yes

Answer 7

oops sorry I didn't mean to do that.

Answer 8

-0.375
-0.24%

Answer 9

you can divide 3 and 8 like 3÷8.0

Answer 10

So it would be 0.375?

Answer 11

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Answer 12

Oh, so 3/8 isn't negative?

Answer 13

0.375 would be correct then..now multiply by 100 to get the percent.

Answer 14

it is a negative

Answer 15

No, it is negative.

Answer 16

Okay, so it's -0.375 then..now multiply by 100

Answer 17

i was just ignoring the negative sign

Answer 18

If I multiplied it by 100 it would be -37.5.

Answer 19

and that would be your percentage

Answer 20

Yep, so tha'ts our percentage.

Answer 21

-37.5%

Answer 22

yip

Answer 23

Ok, but what about the decimal part?

Answer 24

you can divide 3 and 8 like 3÷8.0

Answer 25

do your division like that