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Lesson 2: Converting fractions to decimals- Rewriting decimals as fractions: 2.75
- Rewriting decimals as fractions challenge
- Worked example: Converting a fraction (7/8) to a decimal
- Fraction to decimal: 11/25
- Fraction to decimal with rounding
- Converting fractions to decimals
- Comparing rational numbers
- Order rational numbers
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Rewriting decimals as fractions: 2.75
Here's an example of how we convert a decimal to a simplified fraction. Over time this will become second nature to you. Created by Sal Khan and Monterey Institute for Technology and Education.
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- How would you turn a fraction who's denominator is in the ones place like, 1 over 8 into a decimal?(18 votes)
- If you're familiar with division using decimals, set it up similarly to that.
EXAMPLE:
1 divided by 8 (This is what 1/8 means, technically.)
8 goes into 1 no times, so we create a decimal point and go to the tenth's place.
8 goes into 10 (which is technically 1.0) one time, leaving a 2 (which is 0.2) remaining.
Add another zero after the decimal and repeat:
8 goes into 20 (which is .20) 2 times, which leaves 4 (read 0.04) as remainder.
Put an extra zero at the end one last time:
8 goes into 40 a total of five times, with no remainder, we're done!
So with all those added zeroes left of the decimal, we get 8 goes into one... 0.125 times!
(If you weren't able to get it on you own, 1/8 = 0.125) I hope this helps!
Also, if you're still having trouble, the next video in this playlist does a great job of showing this visually:
http://www.khanacademy.org/video/converting-fractions-to-decimals?playlist=Developmental%20Math(35 votes)
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░░░░░░░░░▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▀▀░░░░░░░(11 votes) - if the problem is 3.05 will you put 0/10(5 votes)
- atcually, with 3.05 you round to the nearset tenth so the real answer is 1/10(10 votes)
- how does this rounding work exactly? I watched the video a few times and still doesn't make sense...(6 votes)
- Here are some examples of fractions that need to be rounded: Example 1: The fraction 5/9 won't divide evenly — it ends in a repeating decimal. Change 5/9 to a decimal by dividing 5 by 9. If you choose to round to three decimal places, look one digit beyond the third decimal place, which is 5.To round off a decimal number, you limit the number of decimal places that the number holds. If the division ends in a repeating decimal, you can stop after a certain number of decimal places and round off.(8 votes)
- If you want an easy way of solving these, use this simple method!
Say you have you question and lets say its this:
Convert 0.92 into a fraction.
We know that the 9 is in the tenths column so 0.9 would be 9/10.
The 2 is in the hundreths column so it is 2/100.
Now all you have to do is combine them!
9/10 + 2/100 + 92/100!
And now we can simplify it!
92 and 100 can be divided by 4!
92/4 = 23
100/4 = 25
So the final answer is 23/25!
Now that you know how to solve it try this!
1. What is 0.73 as a fraction?
2. What is 0.49 as a fraction?
3. What is 0.937 as a fraction?
Good luck and have a blessed day!(9 votes) - I Don't Understand The Simpliflying Process?(5 votes)
- Assuming that you still dont understand, the simpliflying process is quite simple. Lets say we have a fraction of 6/21. We need to find the biggest common factor between the 2 numbers, if there is one. 6 can be divided by 2, but not 21. Because everything we do the the top, we need to do the bottom, and everything we do to the bottom we do to the top. 6 can be divided by 3, and so can 21. So, we divide 6 by 3, and get 2. We divide 21 by 3 and get 7. Our simplified answer is 2/7.(9 votes)
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This is because "10" has one zero, which means one decimal place, and 7 is just how many of the 0.1's you need.(5 votes)
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On my homework my teacher gave me, it has 0.3(the three is repeated) and I have to turn that into a fraction in simplest terms. How would I convert that?(4 votes)- If the three repeats forever, it is 1/3. Try doing 1 divided by 3 on a calculator. You might get something like 0.3333333334.(6 votes)
Video transcript
Write 2.75 as a simplified
fraction. So once you get some
practice here. You're going to find it pretty
straightforward to do. But we're really going to think
through it and get the intuition for why this
makes sense. So if we were to write this
down, the 2, that literally just represents two 1's, I'll
just write it down like that. Then we have the 7
in another color. We have a 7 one place to the
right of the decimal. It's in the tenths place,
with a T-H-S at the end. So it literally represents
7 over 10. And then finally, we have the 5
in the hundredths place, so it represents 5 over 100. Now, if I want to write this as
a simplified fraction, or really as a mixed number, I have
to merge these fraction parts right here. And to add two fractions, you
have to have a common denominator. And to figure out the common
denominator, you just have to think about the least common
multiple of 10 and 100. And that's 100. 100 is divisible by
both 100 and 10. So let's get this
10 to be 100. So we can do that by multiplying
it by 10. So when you multiply something
by 10, you add a zero at the end of it. But you can't just do that
to the denominator. We also have to do that
to the numerator. So we multiplied the
denominator by 10. Let's also multiply the
numerator by 10. 7 times 10 is 70,
or 70 over 100. It's the exact same
thing as 7/10. Now we can add these two. What is 70 plus 5? 70 plus 5 is 75. And our denominator is
100, so this can be rewritten as 2 and 75/100. And we saw that in the last
video, you would read this as two and seventy-five
hundredths. Now we aren't in a completely
simplified fraction yet because 75 and 100 have
common factors. And the largest number that
goes into both, if you're familiar with quarters, is 25. Three quarters is $0.75, four
quarters is 100 cents, or four quarters is $1.00. So you divide both
of them by 25. So 75 divided by 25 is 3, and
100 divided by 25 is 4. So as a simplified mixed
number, this becomes 2 and 3/4. And after you do a lot of
practice here, and you just see a lot of numbers like this,
it will be almost second nature for you to say, oh, 2.75
is the same thing as 2 and 75/100, is the same
thing as 2 and 3/4.