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Decimals to Fractions
Fractions to decimals
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Fractions on a Number Line
Decimals on a Number Line
100
o.5
What is one half?
100
One tenth
What is 0.1?
100
This number can be written as a fraction.
What is rational number?
100
This number sits halfway between zero and one.
What is one half?
100
These increments will divide the space between each whole number into ten spaces.
What is one tenth?
200
0.25
What is one quarter?
200
Three fourths
What is 0.75?
200
This decimal ends with a zero or a string of zeroes.
What is a terminating decimal.
200
This fraction sits half way between zero and one half.
What is one fourth?
200
This decimal sits three quarters of the way between zero and one.
What is 0.75?
300
0.75
What is three quarters?
300
10/25
What is 0.4
300
This decimal shows the same number or string of numbers again and again.
What is a repeating decimal?
300
This fraction sits half way between three quarters and one.
What is seven eighths?
300
This decimal is equally distant from the numbers three and four.
What is 3 1/2?
400
0.8
What is eight tenths?
400
10/30
What is 0.3333...
400
The numbers to the left of this point are greater than or equal to one, the numbers to the right are less than one.
What is the decimal?
400
This fraction sits half way between one half and three quarters.
What is five eighths?
400
This decimal would sit half way between 3.9 and 4.0 on the number line.
What is 3.95?
500
0.125
What is one eighth?
500
2/9
What is 0.22222222.....
500
A number that cannot be written as a fraction.
What is an irrational number?
500
This fraction sits half way between one quarter and three eighths.
What is 5/16
500
This rational number sits on the number line but is neither positive nor negative.
What is zero.