Question

Write each of the following as decimals: Seven – tenths.

Answer 1

Hint: In the given question, we have been asked to write a number written in words as a decimal. To do that, we must know what the second term of the given number means. Then we represent the given number as a fraction and then as a decimal.

Complete step by step solution:
The given number is Seven – tenths.
Tenths means the number is divided by \[10\].
So, Seven – tenths \[ = 7 \div 10 = \dfrac{7}{{10}} = 0.7\]
Hence, in decimal, Seven – tenths is \[0.7\].

Note: In the given question, we had to represent a mathematical statement written in phrase as a decimal. We did that by first writing the given phrase representing the mathematical statement as a fraction. So, it is important that we know how to convert or how to translate any given phrase into a fraction. Then, we divided the fraction, or we can say that after converting the phrase into its corresponding fraction, we converted the fraction to its decimal counterpart. This is done by dividing the numerator by the denominator. And that gave us the answer.