2007-09-17 06:12:45 · 6 answers · asked by David goohall 1 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Mathematics
whats 0.62 as a fraction is simplest form?
2007-09-17 06:34:22 · update #1
You can do long division to figure out the decimal form of fractions. Here I drew you a picture (ignore the bad writing):http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v431/venus236/division.jpg
Basically you look to see how many times 8 goes into 5. It cannot go into 5 at all so you put zero, but you still need a number answer so you add a decimal and add a zero to the five. Now how many times does 8 go into 50? It goes into 6 times because 8x6=48. You subtract that from the 50 and are left with 2 so you must add another zero. You keep adding zeros to the remainder until you finally have no remainder at all. (With the exception to decimals that continue on forever like 1/3. For those you just put a line over the .3 to indicate that the 3 is repeating.)
2007-09-17 06:22:17 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 3⤋
5/8 is the same as 5 divided by 8. do that and the answer is your decimal answer
2007-09-17 06:17:07 · answer #2 · answered by biscuit 3 · 3⤊ 0⤋
*** Blunt, In what world is 5/8= 0.83???
5/8= 0.625
Other Fractions commonly used:
.015625=1/64"
.03125=1/32"
.0625 = 1/16"
.125 = 1/8"
.1875 = 3/16"
.25 = 1/4"
.3125 = 5/16"
.375 = 3/8"
.4375 = 7/16"
.5 = 1/2"
.5625 = 9/16"
.625 = 5/8"
.6875 = 11/16"
.75 = 3/4"
.8125 = 13/16"
.875 = 7/8"
.9375 = 15/16"
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2007-09-17 06:28:12 · answer #3 · answered by muddypuppyuk 5 · 0⤊ 3⤋
0.83333....
5 divided by 8 = 0.83
2007-09-17 06:22:01 · answer #4 · answered by Blunt 7 · 1⤊ 2⤋
Divide 5 by 8 : -
8 | 5.000
" |---------
" | 0.625
"-----------
5 / 8 = 0.625
2007-09-17 06:24:52 · answer #5 · answered by Como 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
0.625 - From memory.
2007-09-17 06:20:17 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋