-'2,S MODERN BUTTEU MAKINU. 



(b). Reduce .75 to a common fraction. 

 7,5 25 



1 =% Ans. 



100 25 



(c). Reduce .375 to a common fraction. 

 375 25 15 15 5 



1 -^— , — ^% Ans. 



1,000 25 40 40 5 



Rule. Under the figures of the decimal, place one 

 (1) and annex as many ciphers at the right as there 

 are decimal places in the decimal. Reduce the re- 

 sulting fraction to its lowest terms by dividing both 

 numerator and denominator by a figure which will 

 divide each of them without a remainder. 



Percentage. 



13. There is no business in which a knowledge of 

 the fundamental principles of percentage is more 

 necessary than in dairying. In most of the opera- 

 tions incident to the carrying on of the various 

 phases of dairying, it is very convenient to know 

 how to use the decimal or percentage system. In- 

 stead of using the common fractions as %, %, 2/5 or 

 3/5, it is easier to use 50/100, 25/100, 40/100 and 

 60/100, or the decimals .50, .25, .40 and .60. 



It is easier to compute with numbers having the 

 denominator of 10 or some power of 10, as 100, 

 1,000, etc., than it is to use the common fractions. 



Percentage is a term applied to those arithmetical 

 operations in which the number or quantity to be 

 operated upon is supposed to be divided into 100 

 equal parts. 



