Question

How do you write 11/25 as a decimal?

Answer 1

Hint: To write a fraction as a decimal, you can use a calculator. Or you can just do the division using the division method. Or you can use another method. In this method you need to multiply a number in both the numerator and the denominator, such that in the denominator you get the multiples of 10. So you can just move the decimal places. In this, you need to multiply the numerator and the denominator with 4.

Complete step by step solution:
You can just use the calculator to calculate the value. Just type in 11 then the division symbol and then 25. You get the answer as 0.44
Or you can multiply both the numerator and the denominator with a value such that, you get multiples of 10 in the denominator. This way, you do not need to do any division and just move the decimal places.
In this question, we multiply both the numerator and the denominator with 4. Therefore, we get
$\Rightarrow \dfrac{11}{25} \times \dfrac{4}{4}$
 $\Rightarrow \dfrac{44}{100}$

We have 100 in the denominator. So we just need to move two decimal places to the left in 44. Therefore, after moving two decimal places to the left, we get the answer as 0.44
As we can see, this matches with the value we got using the calculator.

So, the correct answer is “0.44”.

Note: You can also do this division using the traditional division method by dividing 11 as the dividend and 25 as the divisor. You can cross check your answer, by multiplying 0.44 with 25. If you get the answer as 11, then it is correct, otherwise recheck your answer.