Free interactive math game: Fraction to Decimal — Conversion. Part of the Decimal Fractions category on MathKite.
Taken from the generator that powers this exercise. A fresh set appears every time the page is opened, and the printable worksheet holds ten of them.
Converting a fraction into a decimal.
Divide the numerator by the denominator, or scale the fraction so the denominator becomes 10, 100 or 1000.
Three quarters becomes 75 hundredths, that is 0.75.
Dividing the wrong way round. It is the numerator divided by the denominator, so three quarters is 3 : 4 and never 4 : 3.