Teacher Miriam asked her pupils: “What is the smallest number?

”
Mirel answered: “One”
Myrine answered: “Zero”
How about you, Melchor, whose answer do you think is correct?
Melchor answered: Neither is correct, Ma’am.
Is Melchor correct?
There are numbers that is GREATER THAN ZERO BUT
LESS THAN 1.
WHAT IS IT?
DECIMAL
A rational number whose denominator is a power of 10
such as or 10, or 100, or 1000, and so on.
Fractions can be expressed as decimals.
Fractions How to do it? Decimal
1 = .1 = 0.1 0.1
5= . 5 = 0.05 0.05
1 5 = . 3 0 = 0.30 1.30

2 5 = . 0 0 7 = 0.007 2.007
Fractions can be expressed as decimals.
Hundreds Tens Ones . Tenths Hundredths Thousandths Ten
Thousandth
0 . 1
0 . 0 5
1 . 3 0
2 . 0 0 7
Fractions can be expressed as decimals.
Fractions Decimal Read as
0.1 One-tenth
0.05 Five-hundredths
1 1.30 One and thirty-hundredths
2 2.007 Two and seven-
thousandths
Other ways to express fractions to
decimal
 Note:
Example: To find the decimal equivalent of the
fraction, simply divide the
numerator by the denominator.
=?
 Solution:
Example: 0.8
5 √ 4.0
-4 0
=? 0
 Solution:
0.375
Example: 8 √ 3.000
-2 4
60
=? -56
40
-40
0
Example:

=?
 Solution:
0.16
Example: 2 5 √ 4.00
-2 5
150
=? -150
0
Example:

= 8.16
How about decimal to fraction?
Example:

=?
Example:

= 9
Example:

=?
Example:

= 2
Example:

=?
Example:

= 2