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Example Questions
Example Question #30 : How To Find The Decimal Equivalent Of A Fraction
What decimal matches the value of the fraction?
In order to find the decimal equivalent of a fraction, divide the numerator by the denominator. Add a decimal and a zero after the five to get an easier division problem.
From here, we want to know how many times nine goes into fifty. Nine times five gives us fourty-five. We wil take this number and subtract it from fifty to get our new division problem.
Again we will add a zero after the five and repeat the steps above.
Therefore,
The answer is since you should round up to the hundredths place.
Example Question #31 : Fractions
What decimal matches the value of the fraction?
In order to find the decimal equivalent of a fraction, divide the numerator by the denominator. First, add a decimal and zero to the three.
From here, we can see that four goes into thirty seven times. Seven times four gives us twenty-eight. Now we subtract that from thirty to get our new division problem.
Now we can see that four times five gives us twenty therefore,
.
The answer is .
Example Question #31 : How To Find The Decimal Equivalent Of A Fraction
What decimal matches the value of the fraction?
In order to find the decimal equivalent of a fraction, divide the numerator by the denominator. First add a decimal and zero to six to make the division simplier.
From here we can see that fifteen goes into sixty, four times.
The answer is .
Example Question #33 : Fractions
What decimal matches the value of the fraction?
In order to find the decimal equivalent of a fraction, divide the numerator by the denominator. First add a decimal place and zero to .
Now we can see that six times thirty will give us .
Therefore,
The answer is .
Example Question #32 : How To Find The Decimal Equivalent Of A Fraction
Find the decimal equivalent to
To find the decimal equivalent to divide the numerator by the denominator:
Example Question #35 : Fractions
Find the decimal equivalent to
To find the decimal equivalent to divide the numerator by the denominator:
An alternative way to think about this problem is to find an equivalent fraction:
Three tenths means that there must be a in the tenths place, which is the first place value to the right of the decimal:
Example Question #36 : Fractions
Find the equivalent percent to
To find the equivalent percent to divide the numerator by the denominator:
Now, multiply the decimal number by :
Example Question #37 : Fractions
Find the equivalent percent of .
To find the equivalent percent of , first convert this mixed number to an improper fraction. Then divide the numerator by the denominator:
Now, multiply the decimal number by :
Example Question #38 : Fractions
Find the decimal equivalent to
To find the decimal equivalent to divide the numerator by the denominator:
An alternative way to solve this problem is to:
To write eighteen hundredths you must put a one in the tenths place and an eight in the hundredths place value
Example Question #33 : How To Find The Decimal Equivalent Of A Fraction
Identify the place value of the in the number:
Ones place value
Hundreds place value
Hundredths place value
Tenths place value
Tens place value
Hundreds place value
In the number the is in the hundreds place value.
From right to left the place values are: ones, tens, hundreds, thousands and ten thousands.
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