0.1 and 0.05?

English translation: one-tenth of one percent..five one hundredths of one percent

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English term or phrase:	0.1 and 0.05?
Selected answer:	one-tenth of one percent..five one hundredths of one percent
Entered by:	airmailrpl

02:47 Feb 20, 2006

English language (monolingual) [Non-PRO]
Mathematics & Statistics / Numerical

English term or phrase: 0.1 and 0.05?

How to write 0.1% or 0.05%?

(zero point one percent or one-tenth of a percent?)

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Anthony Indra KudoZ activity Questions: 173 (2 open) (1 without valid answers) (2 closed without grading) Answers: 822 United States
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one-tenth of one percent..five one hundredths of one percent

Explanation:
0.1% => one-tenth of one percent

0.05% => five one hundredths of one percent

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Discursive Recursions: One Tenth of One PercentTen times one tenth of one percent equals one percent of the population. All these participation rate calculations naturally lead me to wonder, ...
discrec.blogspot.com/2005/ 06/one-tenth-of-one-percent.html

Krugman Truth Squad: Donald Luskin on Daniel Okrent & Paul Krugman ...And that number is only five-one-hundredths of one percent higher than the historical average. More, whereas the number of discouraged workers fell in ...
www.nationalreview.com/nrof_luskin/ truthsquad200401061232.asp

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one-tenth of one percent..five one hundredths of one percent

airmailrpl

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zero point one percent

Marina Soldati

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zero point one percent

Explanation:
List of numbers - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia - [ Traduzca esta página ]
0.1, 1 \over 10, One tenth, zero point one, One perdecime, one perdime ... 0.01, 1 \over 100, One hundredth, zero point zero one, One percent ...
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_numbers - 94k

Marina Soldati
Argentina
Local time: 15:59
Native speaker of:

Spanish

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peer agreement (net): +4

one-tenth of one percent..five one hundredths of one percent

airmailrpl
Brazil
Local time: 15:59
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English,

Portuguese

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