Only 40% of people between the ages of 18 and 24 read a daily newspaper. Write the percent as a fraction in simplest form.

40% = 4/10 = 2/5

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To write a percent as a fraction, you need to place the number over 100 and simplify it to its simplest form.

In this case, you are given that 40% of people between the ages of 18 and 24 read a daily newspaper. To write 40% as a fraction, you can write it as 40/100.

To simplify the fraction, you can divide both the numerator and denominator by their greatest common divisor, which in this case is 20.

Dividing 40 by 20 gives us 2, and dividing 100 by 20 gives us 5. Therefore, the simplified fraction for 40% is 2/5.

So, 40% can be written as the fraction 2/5 in the simplest form.