SOLUTION: convert 12 1/2 to a decimal.

Question 668192: convert 12 1/2 to a decimal.
Answer by swincher4391(1107) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
Another way of thinking about 12 1/2 is that it is (12 + 1/2). What is 1/2 in decimal form? What does it mean to be in decimal form? That means that we are in terms of 10. So what is 1/2 in terms of 10? It is 5/10. So 1/2 = .5.
Then we have that 12 1/2 = 12.5
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