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At hockey practice, Savannah made 19 out of 20 shots. Write the fraction of shots Savannah missed as decimal

User Earlcasper
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So basically it’s
1/20 which equals to
0.5
User Jeroenbourgois
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Answer:

.05

Explanation:

if she made 19/20 shots, this means she missed 1/20

Decimals are on a scale of one hundred, therefore, we need to set the denominator to 100

To do this, multiply 1/20 times 5/5 and you should get 5/100

in decimal form, 5/100 is equal to this:

0.05

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