{"id":268912,"date":"2025-07-24T09:07:29","date_gmt":"2025-07-24T09:07:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/learnexams.com\/blog\/?p=268912"},"modified":"2025-07-24T09:07:31","modified_gmt":"2025-07-24T09:07:31","slug":"simplified-to-a-fraction-then-turned-into-a-decimal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.learnexams.com\/blog\/2025\/07\/24\/simplified-to-a-fraction-then-turned-into-a-decimal\/","title":{"rendered":"simplified to a fraction, then turned into a decimal"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p> simplified to a fraction, then turned into a decimal. (2 different answers, 1 simplified fraction, then that simplified fraction to a decimal\u2026)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-ast-global-color-1-color\">The Correct Answer and Explanation is:<\/mark><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>To simplify 208\\frac{20}{8}820\u200b, you divide both the numerator (20) and the denominator (8) by their greatest common divisor (GCD), which is 4.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Simplification:<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Divide both 20 and 8 by 4: 20\u00f748\u00f74=52\\frac{20 \\div 4}{8 \\div 4} = \\frac{5}{2}8\u00f7420\u00f74\u200b=25\u200b So, the simplified fraction is 52\\frac{5}{2}25\u200b.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Conversion to Decimal:<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>To convert 52\\frac{5}{2}25\u200b into a decimal, simply divide 5 by 2: 5\u00f72=2.55 \\div 2 = 2.55\u00f72=2.5 So, 52\\frac{5}{2}25\u200b is equal to 2.5 in decimal form.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Summary:<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Simplified fraction: 52\\frac{5}{2}25\u200b<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Decimal: 2.5<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>This process involves finding the GCD of the numerator and denominator to simplify the fraction, then performing the division to convert it into a decimal.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/learnexams.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/learnexams-banner6-1827.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-268913\"\/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>simplified to a fraction, then turned into a decimal. (2 different answers, 1 simplified fraction, then that simplified fraction to a decimal\u2026) The Correct Answer and Explanation is: To simplify 208\\frac{20}{8}820\u200b, you divide both the numerator (20) and the denominator (8) by their greatest common divisor (GCD), which is 4. Simplification: Conversion to Decimal: Summary: [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-268912","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-exams-certification"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.learnexams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/268912","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.learnexams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.learnexams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.learnexams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.learnexams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=268912"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.learnexams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/268912\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.learnexams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=268912"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.learnexams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=268912"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.learnexams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=268912"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}