Question #2b324

2 Answers
Oct 24, 2017

#7/20#

Explanation:

First Step:
0.35= #35/100#

The second step is to simplify the fraction:
divide each number by 5
#35/100#=#7/20#

Oct 24, 2017

#7/20#

Explanation:

To write it as a fraction, we should at least know that any number over 1 is still that number (ex. 5=#5/1# since 5 divided by 1 is still 5 no matter what).

In this case, we can write #0.35/1#, but we would prefer to not have decimals in fraction. To get rid of it, we multiply the top and bottom by 100 (because the decimal point would move 2 to the right because there are two zeroes in 100).

Therefore, we would get #35/100#. We should be able to simplify this since both the top and the bottom number both have a factor of 5, so we have something like....

#(5*7)/(5*20)#

We can take away both of the fives on the numerator and denominator to get...

#7/20#

-Sakuya