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A baseball pitcher has pitches 98 2/3 innings. What is the number of innings written as a decimal?

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98.67 rounded is your answer
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98⅔ is simply 98 + ⅔, now, how much is ⅔?

well, to convert any fraction to decimal, recall that a/b is just a ÷ b, so ⅔ is just 2 ÷ 3, or 0.6666.....

so 98 + ⅔is then 98 + 0.66666... or just 98.67 rounded up.

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