Question

22. One kilometer is approximately 0.62 mile. What fraction represents this length?

Answer 1

Answer:

One kilometer is $\frac{31}{50}$ miles

Explanation:

To convert a decimal to a fraction:

1- Write the decimal as a fraction whose denominator is 1

2- Multiply both numerator and denominator by multiples of 10 to eliminate the decimal point

3- Simplify the fraction you have

Now, for the given problem:

The given decimal is 0.62, following the above steps:

Step 1:

$0.62 = \frac{0.62}{1}$

Step 2:

We have two digits after the decimal point, so to eliminate the decimal point, we will multiply the numerator and the denominator by 100

$0.62 = \frac{0.62}{1} * \frac{100}{100} = \frac{62}{100}$

Step 3:

We can note that, in the fraction obtained from step 2, both the numerator and the denominator are divisible by 2, so we simplify as follows:

$\frac{62}{100} = \frac{62/2}{100/2} =\frac{31}{50}$

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