Question

leni's calculator weighs 7/12 pound . what is the weight of her calculator expressed as a decimal? round to the nearest thousands place?

Answer 1

For finding the decimal expression of the value 7/12, we have to make the respective division.

`(7)/(12)`

For doing it, as 7 is less than 12, we add a 0 to the dividend and a 0, to the quotient, as shown:

And then we start with the usual division.

This means that its decimal expresion (rounded to the nearest thousands place) will be 0.5833...