There is not much that can be done to figure out how to write .125 as a fraction, except to literally use what the decimal portion of your number, the .125, means.Since there are 3 digits in 125, the very last digit is the "1000th" decimal place.
So we can just say that .125 is the same as 125/1000.
The fraction
is not reduced to lowest terms. We can reduce this fraction to lowest
terms by dividing both the numerator and denominator by 125.Why divide by 125? 125 is the Greatest Common Divisor (GCD)
or Greatest Common Factor (GCF) of the numbers 125 and 1000.
So, this fraction reduced to lowest terms is
So your final answer is: .125 can be written as the fraction
Friday, December 21, 2007
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Here's how to convert .125 to a fraction...
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1 comment:
Good explanation. I had to make your text smaller so that it's easier to read.
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