In this lesson students learn that a percent is a number out of a 100. 100% represents a whole and can be split into parts: 25%, 40%, 78%, etc. This lesson also discussed that a percent was invented for convenience in order to easier represent fractions or decimals. Therefore, percents can be converted to fractions and decimals. For example, 1% = 0.01, because to convert a percent into a decimal, we need to divide the value of the percent by 100%. The lesson also includes the use of perce