We've seen how to express fractions with denominators of 10,100, and 1,000 as decimals. But what about fractions with other denominators? How do we express those fractions as decimals?

To demonstrate, let's express the following fraction as a decimal:

\dfrac{1}{20}

To express this fraction as a decimal, we first need to write it as an equivalent fraction with either 10,100 or 1,000 in the denominator.

Notice that if we multiply the numerator and denominator by \color{red}5 , we get a denominator of 100{:}

\begin{align} \dfrac{1}{20} &= \dfrac{1\times {\color{red}{5}}}{20\times {\color{red}{5}}}=\dfrac{5}{100} \end{align}

Now that we have a fraction of 100, we can express it as a decimal with 2 decimal places:

\dfrac{\color{blue}{5}}{100} =0.0{\color{blue}{5}}

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Express \dfrac{4}{25} as a decimal.

EXPLANATION

First, we write this fraction as an equivalent fraction with 100 as the denominator. To do that, we multiply both the numerator and denominator by 4{:}

\begin{align} \dfrac{4}{25} &= \dfrac{4\times 4}{25\times 4} =\dfrac{16}{\color{red}100} \end{align}

We can now write this fraction as a decimal with 2 decimal places:

\dfrac{\color{blue}16}{100} =0.{\color{blue}16}

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$\dfrac{3}{5}=$

a
$0.6$
b
$0.06$
c
$0.32$
d
$0.375$
e
$0.35$

$\dfrac{9}{20}=$

a
$0.045$
b
$0.50$
c
$0.920$
d
$0.018$
e
$0.45$

$\dfrac{1}{4}=$

a
$0.04$
b
$0.025$
c
$0.14$
d
$0.25$
e
$0.40$

Which decimal number is equivalent to \dfrac{17}{200}?

EXPLANATION

First, we write an equivalent fraction with 1,000 as the denominator. To do that, we multiply both the numerator and denominator by 5{:}

\begin{align} \dfrac{17}{200} &= \dfrac{17\times 5}{200\times 5} =\dfrac{85}{\color{red}1,000} \end{align}

We can now write this fraction as a decimal with 3 decimal places:

\begin{align*} \dfrac{\color{blue}85}{1,000}& =0.0{\color{blue}85} \end{align*}

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Which decimal number is equivalent to $\dfrac{3}{500}?$

a
$0.450$
b
$0.006$
c
$0.024$
d
$0.060$
e
$0.045$

Which decimal number is equivalent to $\dfrac{3}{250}?$

a
$0.120$
b
$0.015$
c
$0.012$
d
$0.325$
e
$0.150$

Which decimal number is equivalent to $\dfrac{9}{125}?$

a
$0.072$
b
$0.720$
c
$0.540$
d
$0.045$
e
$0.054$
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