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Find out how fractions and decimals mean the
same number.
3 tenths 0.3
Another Example:
B B B B B B B B B B
1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1
10 10 10 10 10 10 10 10 10 10
whole
The illustration shows that 6 coin banks
were sold out of 10 or . How do you rename to
a decimal number?
Notice that the denominator 10 has one
zero. The number of zeros in the denominator is
equal to the number of decimal places after the
decimal point in a decimal number.
1. = = 0.5 2. = = 0.2
3. = = 0.6 4. = = 0.8
How will you write as a decimal? ?
= 0.35 The denominator has 2 zeros.
It tells us that there are 2 digits after
the decimal point in the decimal
number.
3. = = 0.24 4. = = 0.06
Rename the following fractions to decimal
numbers.
Write the following fractions as decimal
numbers.
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