Question

What is 1/4 as a decimal

Answer 1

In order to write $\frac{1}{4}$ as a decimal, we need to find a fraction equivalent to $\frac{1}{4}$ with a 100 in the denominator. Notice that if we multiply the numerator and denominator of $\frac{1}{4}$ by 25, we get the equivalent fraction $\frac{25}{100}$ which we can now write as a decimal.

Remember that the hundredths place is two places to the right of the decimal point. Therefore, we can write $\frac{25}{100}$ as 0.25.