Textbook Reference: 54

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Converting Between Fractions and Decimals

• Textbook Reference 5-4
• SOL 7.1.i

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Fraction ? Decimal

• Friendly Fraction
• Already a power of ten
• One you already know
• Make it a Friendly Fraction
• Divide
• Bar means
• Top Bottom (calculator)
• Bottom top (paper/pencil)

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Decimal ? Fraction contd

• Read the number to yourself
• 3.54 three and fifty-hour hundredths
• The number behind the decimal is the numerator.
• 3. 54
• The last digit place value is the denominator.
• 3.54 hundredths place
• A whole number means it will be a mixed number.
  3.54
• Simplify.

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Decimal ? Fraction contd
and
Tens
Ones
Tenths
Hundreds
Hundredths
Thousandths