# What is 0.5 as a fraction?

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Oct 6, 2015

$0.5 = \frac{1}{2}$

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1. 0.5 is said as "five-tenths". This is because it is one place after the decimal (which is the tenths place).
2. It would then become five-tenths, written as: $\frac{5}{10}$
3. You would then simplify the faction: $\frac{5}{10} = \frac{1}{2}$
4. This is because five can go into itself once and goes into ten twice.
5. Another way of thinking about it is that five is exactly half of ten.
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Oct 6, 2015

$0.5 = \frac{1}{2}$

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$0.5 = 0 \times {10}^{0} + 5 \times {10}^{- 1}$

$\textcolor{w h i t e}{\text{XXX}} = 0 \times {10}^{0} + \frac{5}{10}$

$\textcolor{w h i t e}{\text{XXX}} = \frac{5}{10}$

$\textcolor{w h i t e}{\text{XXX}} = \frac{1}{2}$

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