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How to convert a fraction into a decimal

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If Fraction has denominators such as 10, 100 or 1000 it would be easy to convert it into decimal. Like this:
6
------- - Fraction.
100
Now, Write down the number six and add zeros to it. If the denominator has 2 zeros in it then the there should be two decimal numbers. Answer for the above fraction would be: 0.06.

If a fraction does not have denominators such as 10, 100 or 1000, then do the following:

6
------
25

The above fraction's denominator is not 10, 100 or 100. So, multiply the numerator and the denominator with a number that would give you the denominator as 10, 100 or 1000.

6 × 4 = 24
----- ---- -------
25 × 4 = 100

Now, you can convert it as 0.24

If a fraction has a denominator that cannot be converted into 10, 100 or 1000, then directly divide and write the decimal.

Hope it helped you, Sophia46!!
User Lreichold
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Hello There!

There is a very easy way to convert a fraction into a decimal. We first must know that a fraction is a division problem in disguise meaning that it's the same thing. For example,
(2)/(3) is the same thing as 2 ÷ 3

An easy way to do this is read the fraction as it were a division problem. This means that the number on top of a fraction the numerator will divide by the denominator.

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