Lesson 4- Expanding Decimals
Objective:
At the end of this lesson, students should be able to expand decimals into simpler fractions.
Decimals consist of simple fractions that have been added up. They can therefore be broken down into these simpler fractions.
Example 1
Expand 0.3796 to its simpler fractions.
Solution
Example 3
Write the decimal 4286.087 as a sum of its simpler fractions.
Solution
Unit 10 Lesson 4: Exercise 1
Expand the following decimals
- 6.824
- 0.4273
- 35.17
- 104.926
- 8749.2
- 731.148
- 0.0603
- 8.2047
- 73.891
- 4.7814
Unit 10 Lesson 4: Exercise 2
Write the following answers in decimal form.
1) 0.296 2) 8.4637
3) 24.05 4) 647.004
5) 3025.031 6) 4.3021
7) 0.0685 8) 0.6025
9) 64.9003 10) 803.05