Question

7/12Change to a decimal. Round to the nearest hundredths if necessary. It says type an integer or decimal rounded to the nearest hundredth as needed.

Answer 1

By defnition, a fraction has the following form:

`(a)/(b)`

Where "a" is the numerator and "b" is the denominator. Both are Integers.

In this case you have the following fraction:

`(7)/(12)`

In order to change it to a Decimal number, you need to divide the numerator 7 by the denominator 12.

To round the result to the nearest hundreth, you need to:

- Identify the number located in the Thousandths place.

- If that number is greater than or equal 5, then you must round adding 1 to the digit in the Hundredths place.

- If the number is less than 5, you only need to remove all the digits located at the right of the digit in the Hundredths place.

Then, you get tha the answer is:

`\approx\text{0}.58`