Question

How do you simplify and make the decimal 0.101 into a fraction?

Answer 1

`0.101 = 101/1000`

Explanation:

`0.101 * 1000 = 101`

So `0.101 = 101/1000`

`101` and `1000` have no common factors to make this simpler. In fact `101` is a prime number, having no positive integer factors apart from `1` and itself.