How do you convert 3/8 to a decimal?

1 Answer
Apr 17, 2016

38=0.375

Explanation:

You can find it by long division, but let's try another way...

Since 8=2×2×2 and 10=2×5, we know that 8 is a divisor of 1000=10×10×10=2×2×2×5×5×5=8×125

So:

38=31258125=3751000=0.375