Question

What fraction is equivalent to 0.4?

Answer 1

2/5

How? The decimal .4 is out of ten so it’s 4/10 but then you simplify it and get 2/5

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Answer 2

Using the place value chart we can see that the decimal 0.4 is four tenths, so we can write 0.4 as the fraction 4 out of 10 or $\frac{4}{10}$. Notice however that $\frac{4}{10}$ is not in lowest terms so we need to divide both the numerator and denominator by the greatest common factor of 4 and 10 which is 5.

Therefore, 0.4 can be written as the fraction 2/5, which is in lowest terms.