Evita lives 0.85 mile from her school . write this distance as a fraction in simplest form
.85 is in the hundredths place so your fraction will be 85/100 then you divide it by 5 and get 17/20 as your answer. Hope this helps
Answer:
\(\frac{17}{20}\text{ miles }\)
Step-by-step explanation:
When we write a terminating decimal as a fraction,
Then we follow the below steps,
Step 1 : Write the number with denominator 1,
Step 2 : multiply numerator and denominator by an exponent of 10 ( like 10, 100, 100 etc ) to eliminate the decimal,
Step 3 : simplify the fraction by dividing both numerator and denominator by the HCF of numerator and denominator,
Here, the given number,
0.85
\(=\frac{0.85}{1}\)
\(=\frac{0.85\times 100}{100}\)
\(=\frac{85}{100}\)
\(=\frac{85\div 5}{100\div 5}\) ( HCF (85, 100) = 5 )
\(=\frac{17}{20}\)