document.write( "Question 653140: How would I plot 7/25 on a number line? \n" ); document.write( "
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document.write( "7/25 is seven twenty-fifths of the way from 0 going toward 1.  So you have\r\n" );
document.write( "to make a mark somewhere in between 0 and 1 which you estimate is 7/25ths of\r\n" );
document.write( "the way from 0 toward 1.  One way to get it accurate is to make a number line\r\n" );
document.write( "with 25 little marks between 0 and 1.  Each mark will be one twenty-fifth. So\r\n" );
document.write( "count 7 of those little marks past 0 going toward 1 and put a mark there and\r\n" );
document.write( "that will represent seven twenty-fifths, like this:\r\n" );
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document.write( "-1                        0                        1                        2\r\n" );
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document.write( "But you can just estimate where to put the mark.  You know that 7/25ths is\r\n" );
document.write( "less than half way between 0 and 1, so it will be closer to 0 than it is to 1.\r\n" );
document.write( "You can change it to adecimal 0.28 which rounds to .3 which is about a third of\r\n" );
document.write( "the way.\r\n" );
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