Fill in the following blanks to find other expressions for 5%:

Question

A: ___ for every 100
B: ___ for every 50
C: 1 for every ___
D: 8 for every ___
E: 0.5 for every ___

Please help, very confused by this problem.

Answer 1

A. 5:100

B. 2.5:50

C. 1:20

D. 8:160

E. .5:10

Answer 2

How did you get these answers? I don't see you how did it.

Answer 3

5% = .05 = 5/100 = 1/20 = etc.

Just keep the same ratio.