Question

Last winter, the ratio of days with snow to day with no snow was 1.18. Write this ratio as a faction in simplest form

Answer 1

to change any decimal to a fraction, we simply use as many zeros on the denominator as there are decimals and lose the dot.

1.18 has two decimals, so we'll use two zeros at the bottom, and lose the dot.

$\bf 1.\underline{18}\implies \cfrac{118}{1\underline{00}}\implies \stackrel{simplified}{\cfrac{59}{50}}$