Solve 2%0.5

$$2 \% 0.5$$

Evaluate

$$0.01$$

Solution Steps

Reduce the fraction \frac{2}{100} to lowest terms by extracting and canceling out 2.

$$\frac{1}{50}\times 0.5$$

Convert decimal number 0.5 to fraction \frac{5}{10}. Reduce the fraction \frac{5}{10} to lowest terms by extracting and canceling out 5.

$$\frac{1}{50}\times \frac{1}{2}$$

Multiply \frac{1}{50} times \frac{1}{2} by multiplying numerator times numerator and denominator times denominator.

$$\frac{1\times 1}{50\times 2}$$

Do the multiplications in the fraction \frac{1\times 1}{50\times 2}.

$$\frac{1}{100}$$

Factor

$$\frac{1}{2 ^ {2} \cdot 5 ^ {2}} = 0.01$$