Hi sonjuner we were taught this in class check the review packet you will see it any way the answer 16666/99999 check your message i will send you the answers to all the questions in that page bye
There is not much that can be done to figure out how to write 0.16666 as a fraction, except to literally use what the decimal portion of your number, the .16666, means.
Since there are 5 digits in 16666, the very last digit is the "100000th" decimal place.
So we can just say that .16666 is the same as 16666/100000.
The fraction 16666/100000 is not reduced to lowest terms. We can reduce this fraction to lowest terms by dividing both the numerator and denominator by 2.
Why divide by 2? 2 is the Greatest Common Divisor (GCD) or Greatest Common Factor (GCF) of the numbers 16666 and 100000. So, this fraction reduced to lowest terms is 8333/50000
So your final answer is: 0.16666 can be written as the fraction 8333/50000
