How do you write 7/12 as a decimal?

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CountryGirl
Mar 30, 2018

#0.58bar3#

Explanation:

A decimal is a number written out with - you guessed it - a decimal point. These are some examples of decimals.

  • 16.8
  • 45879.03456
  • 3.1

To turn a fraction into a decimal, all you have to do is divide the top number by the bottom number. Or:
#7/12 = 7 -:12#

So, you can set up your long division problem like this and then solve. I've gone ahead and done it for you, but feel free to follow along!
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NOTE: I know that it looks like I made #12# go into #70#, but that's only because #12# can't go into #7# without going over. So I put #0# above, then a decimal. This permits us to put a #0# after the #7# below, making it #70#.

So our decimal is #0.58bar3#. The line over the #3# means that it repeats over and over again.

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