Question

1. The top 1/8 of the runners advance to the finals for the track and field competition. What is the decimal value of the number? Show your work.

Answer 1

1/8=0.125

0.125
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8 I 1.000
- 8
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20
- 16
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40
- 40
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0

Answer 2

Hence the number in decimal is:

0.125

Explanation:

We are given that:

The top 1/8 of the runners advance to the finals for the track and field competition.

We are asked to find the decimal value of the number i.e. we have to represent 1/8 in the decimal value.

on dividing the number 1 ( which is in numerator) by 8 ( which is in denominator) we obtain:

`(1)/(8)=0.125`

Hence the number in decimal is:

0.125