The minimum daily values (MDVs) for certain foods are given.
They are based on a 2,000 calorie per day diet. Find decimal and fractional notation for the percent notation in each sentence.
To find the decimal and fractional notation for the percent notation in each sentence, you need to remember that percent means "per hundred." Therefore, 1 percent is equivalent to 1/100 or the decimal form 0.01.
Let's take an example. Suppose the sentence states that the minimum daily value for a particular nutrient is 25%. To find the decimal notation, you divide 25 by 100, which gives you 0.25. To express it in fractional notation, you write 25/100, which can be simplified to 1/4.
Similarly, you can apply this method to all the sentences that provide minimum daily values (MDVs) based on a 2,000 calorie per day diet. Just divide the given percentage value by 100 to get the decimal notation and write it as a fraction by putting the number over 100 and simplifying if possible.
For example, if another sentence says the minimum daily value for a different nutrient is 60%, the decimal notation would be 0.60, and the fractional notation would be 60/100, which simplifies to 3/5.
Repeat this process for each sentence that gives a percentage value to find the decimal and fractional notations.