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Unit 3: Lesson 1
Converting fractions to decimals- Fractions, decimals, & percentages FAQ
- Rewriting decimals as fractions: 2.75
- Write decimals as fractions
- 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
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Rewriting decimals as fractions: 2.75
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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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- to be specific if you had 96/363 what would be the small fracxtion for it and would the decimal be 96.363?(8 votes)
- To find the decimal form of 96/363
You can think of the fraction line as a division symbol. The numerator (top) is divided by the denominator (bottom). 96/363 means the same as 96 divided by 363. When you use long division, you can find the decimal form for this fraction.
Rounding to the nearest thousandth, 96/363 = 0.264(5 votes)
- if the problem is 3.05 will you put 0/10(4 votes)
- atcually, with 3.05 you round to the nearset tenth so the real answer is 1/10(5 votes)
- I Don't Understand The Simpliflying Process?(3 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.(6 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?(3 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)
- What is 7/10 equal to as a decimal.(3 votes)
- 0.7
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.(3 votes)
- if you have 0.08 how do you make it in a fraction?(0 votes)
- You make it 8/100 since the 8 is in the hundredths place.(11 votes)
- Not sure I understand the simplification process entirely..
When Sal says you find the lowest number that both are divisible by, firstly, how does he know that so quickly (and how do you work it out) and second, when he says 25, can you not go lower? Are not 100 and 75 both divisible by 5 which is lower?(5 votes)- well first of all sal is an completed school and i think he went to college
and say u have this problem
8/16
u can divide both by 4 but the lowest possible number would be 2 probably if u divide 8/16 by 4 u get 2/4
u can still simplify so if u did 8/16 by 2 u get 4/8 BUT Wait u can still simplify that by 2
so basically u need a number that will simplify another number until it cant be simplified(1 vote)
- how does this rounding work exactly? I watched the video a few times and still doesn't make sense...(4 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.(2 votes)
- to be specific if you had 96/363 what would be the small fraction for it and would the decimal be 96.363?(3 votes)
- No, because 363 is after the decimal point. It does not mean that it is in the denominator. The denominator will be 10, 100, 1000, etc. depending on how many digits there are after the decimal point.
96.363 = 96 + 363/1000(2 votes)
- Why do we need to convert decimals into fractions? Fractions are often harder to understand, and also you can sometimes get mixed up with them (for example, 8765/10000, you might get mixed up that there are 4 0's instead of three). Also, decimals are generally easier to understand.(3 votes)
- What if you had to use one-third in a math problem? Would you use 0.3333... or 1/3?
Which is easier, 1/3 * 15 or 0.3333... * 15?
My point? The reason you are taught to convert between them is that sometimes it's easier to work with decimals, other times it's easier to work with fractions. It's helpful to be able to work with both.
There are probably plenty of other cases I can't think of off the top of my head.
I hope that helped! :D(2 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.