Question

A bag of fruit weighs zero point eight four kilograms. How can you write zero point eight four as a fraction in simplest form?

eight and two-fifths

eighty-four hundredths

twenty-one twenty-fifths

forty-two fiftieths

Answer 1

\[zero~point~eight~four~kilograms~=~0.84~kg\]
\[eighty-four~hundredths~=~\frac{84}{100}~kg\]
Simplify by 2
\[forty-two~fiftieths~=~\frac{42}{50}~kg\]
Simplify by 2
\[twenty-one~twenty-fifths~=~\frac{21}{25}~kg\]
Therefore the simplest form is\[\frac{21}{25}~kg\]