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My Question In a nutshell is What is 6/15 written as a decimal?

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BillytheKid · Tony B

Nov 29, 2017

0.4 basically...

Explanation:

6 divided by 15...
$\frac{6}{15}$ $6/15$

Let's divide both term with 3:
$\frac{6 \div 3}{15 \div 3} = \frac{2}{5}$ $(6-:3)/(15-:3) =2/5$

Multiply both with 2:
$\frac{2 \times 2}{5 \times 2} = \frac{4}{10}$ $(2xx2)/(5xx2) =4/10$

Equals 0.4...

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