The nurse is teaching a novice nurse how to calculate medications by changing fractions into percentages. How can the percentage designated by any fraction be determined?
A) Divide the denominator by the numerator.
B) Divide the numerator by the denominator.
C) Multiply the denominator by the numerator.
D) Multiply the numerator by the denominator.

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To convert a fraction to a percentage, you divide the numerator (the top number) by the denominator (the bottom number) and then multiply the result by 100. This is because a percentage is essentially a fraction out of 100.

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