Question

Write 6/29 as a decimal correct to the hundredths column. Enter your answer as a whole or decimal number.

Answer 1

divide 6 by 29 and write what you see to 2 decimal places.

Answer 2

i don't understand

Answer 3

Divide 6 by 29.

What do you get?

Answer 4

0.2068965517

Answer 5

Correct!

And how do you express that number if you round it off to 2 decimal places?

Answer 6

i dont know how do u do that

Answer 7

is it 20.68965517

Answer 8

No.

You don't MOVE the decimal point, you ignore anything past the "thousandths" place.

Answer 9

.2 = 2 tenths.
.20 = 20 hundredths.
.206 is 206 thousandths.
.2068 is 2068 ten-thousandths.

Answer 10

so the answer is .20

Answer 11

YES!!!

Or almost... :-)

We still have to round properly. Is the number that follows the ".20" 5 or larger or 4 or smaller?

Answer 12

5 and larger

Answer 13

Correct! So we have to round the "0" in ".20" upwards to a "1".

Which gives us... ?

Answer 14

.31

Answer 15

Umm...just the "0", not both 2 and 0.

Answer 16

.21

Answer 17

CORRECT!!!!

And BTW, if the number following the ".20" had been 4 or less, then it would have remained ".20".

So .21 is the solution to 6/29 expressed to 2 decimal places!

Excellent!