Question

Evita lives 0.85 mile from her school . write this distance as a fraction in simplest form

Answer 1

.85 is in the hundredths place so your fraction will be 85/100 then you divide it by 5 and get 17/20 as your answer. Hope this helps

Answer 2

`(17)/(20)\text{ miles }`

Explanation:

When we write a terminating decimal as a fraction,

Then we follow the below steps,

Step 1 : Write the number with denominator 1,

Step 2 : multiply numerator and denominator by an exponent of 10 ( like 10, 100, 100 etc ) to eliminate the decimal,

Step 3 : simplify the fraction by dividing both numerator and denominator by the HCF of numerator and denominator,

Here, the given number,

0.85

`=(0.85)/(1)`

`=(0.85* 100)/(100)`

`=(85)/(100)`

`=(85/ 5)/(100/ 5)` ( HCF (85, 100) = 5 )

`=(17)/(20)`