Question

How do you turn 2/3 to a decimal?

Answer 1

`2/3 = 0.67 or 0.667 or 0.667` etc.

Explanation:

One way of writing a fraction as a decimal is to change the fraction so the denominator is a power of 10.
However, 3 does not divide into any power of 10, so that method does not work here.

The other way is to remember that `2/3` also means `2 ÷ 3`

Dividing gives the following:

`3|underline(2.000000000)`
`" "0.66666666666....` Each time the remainder is 2, so the pattern will continue to infinity.

This is rounded off to an appropriate level of accuracy for the answer required.

`2/3 = 0.67 or 0.667 or 0.667` etc.