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7th grade · Math · Unit 3 of 18

Fractions, Decimals & Percents

Convert, compare and use ratios

What your child practices

Moving between fractions, decimals (including repeating decimals) and percents, finding a percent of a number, and simplifying and scaling ratios.

Alabama Course of Study content standard: 7.3; 7.8 · converting between fractions, decimals and percents and using them in percent problems

How we explain it

Children can open this short lesson before they practice.

  1. A fraction to a decimal: divide the top by the bottom.
  2. A decimal to a percent: multiply by 100.
  3. Percent means out of 100.

Example: Write 3/4 as a decimal and a percent. 3 ÷ 4 = 0.75. 0.75 × 100 = 75%. Answer: 0.75 = 75%

Fractions, Decimals & Percents in Alabama

In the Alabama Course of Study, this is unit 3 of 18 in 7th grade Math, after Decimal Operations and before Two-Step Equations.

Gradelings describes a child's practice on this unit as Beginning, Approaching, Meeting or Exceeding (Four practice steps). That reflects practice, not a report-card mark: the teacher decides the mark.

Source: Alabama State Department of Education (ALSDE)

Sample questions

A taste of this unit. In the app, questions change every time and get easier or harder to match your child.

  1. Question 1

    A pancake recipe uses 5 cups of flour for every 3 cups of milk. How many cups of flour go with 24 cups of milk?

    Pancake recipe
    Flour (cups)Milk (cups)
    53
    106
    ?24

    answer boxcups

  2. Question 2

    A bag holds 20 red marbles and 12 blue marbles. What is the ratio of red marbles to blue marbles in simplest form?

    • 3:8
    • 5:3
    • 5:8
    • 3:5

  3. Question 3

    Write 75% as a fraction. (Simplify it if you can.)

    75%

    answer box

  4. Question 4

    Write 1/5 as a decimal.

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  5. Question 5

    What percent of the bar is shaded?

    answer box%

  6. Question 6

    Which is the least?

    • 3/5
    • 0.55
    • 0.1
    • 65%

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