Pending Assignments Sign Up Free! Login
 

You are not logged in! Sign up to Track your progress and more. TurtleDiary.com is FREE!

Converting Fractions to Decimals

Add to Fav Rate 0 stars   Assign
Close
Quiz size:
Message preview:
Someone you know has shared Converting Fractions to Decimals quiz with you:

To play this quiz, click on the link below:

https://www.turtlediary.com/quiz/converting-fractions-to-decimals.html

To know more about different quizzes, please visit www.turtlediary.com

Hope you have a good experience with this site and recommend to your friends too.

Login to rate activities and track progress.
Login to rate activities and track progress.

There are some fractions whose denominator can be written as a power of 10. To convert such fractions to decimals:

 

1) Find an equivalent fraction with denominator 10, 100, or 1000 etc.

2) Then, counting from extreme right to left, place the decimal point in the numerator after as many digits as there are zeros in the denominator.

If the numerator has fewer digits, then add the desired number of zeros to the left of the numerator, and then place the decimal point.

 

For example: Let's write the fraction
4 5
as a decimal.
 

 

First, find the equivalent fraction of
4 5
having denominator as a power of 10.
 

We can multiply the denominator, 5, by 2 to get 10.

 

4
5
=
4 × 2
5 × 2
=
8
10

 

Now, let's write
8 10
as a decimal.

 

Observe that there is one zero in the denominator.

 

So, counting from right to left, place the decimal point in the numerator after one digit.

 
0.8
 
So,
4
5
=
8
10
=  0.8

 

The fraction
4 5
can be written as the decimal 0.8.