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The easiest way to do so is this:
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\n" ); document.write( "\n" ); document.write( "Take a number like 0.376
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\n" ); document.write( "\n" ); document.write( "This is exactly the same as 376/1000
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\n" ); document.write( "\n" ); document.write( "Of course you can then reduce the fraction to 47/125
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\n" ); document.write( "\n" ); document.write( "Try another one, say 5.98
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\n" ); document.write( "\n" ); document.write( "This is the same as 598/100 or 5 and 98/100 or 5 and 49/50.
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\n" ); document.write( "\n" ); document.write( "The trick is to take the \"number\" and then divide it by the number which represents how many decimal places the number goes to.
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\n" ); document.write( "\n" ); document.write( "In the first example, our number was 0.376
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\n" ); document.write( "\n" ); document.write( "In order to solve that, we put 376 over 1000, because the decimal goes to the thousandths place!
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\n" ); document.write( "\n" ); document.write( "In the second example, our number was 5.98, and we used 598 divided by 100 because the decimal goes to the hundreths place.
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\n" ); document.write( "\n" ); document.write( "One last example, say 105.6
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\n" ); document.write( "\n" ); document.write( "We would put 1056 over 10 because the decimal goes to the tenths place!
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\n" ); document.write( "\n" ); document.write( "So we would end up with 1056/10 which reduces to 528/5 or using a mixed number, it would be 105 and 3/5.
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\n" ); document.write( "\n" ); document.write( "There's a lot more to it when you get to repeating numbers such as 0.3333333..., but for now, this is the easiest way to do it.
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\n" ); document.write( "\n" ); document.write( "I hope this helps!
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