how do you take 9/16 and make it a decimal

Question

how to make fractions and turn them into decimals

Answer 1

1/16 = 0.0625

3/16 = 0.1875    obtained by adding to the value above  2/16 = 1/8 = 0.1250.

5/16 = 0.3125      "

7/16 = 0.4375      "

et cetera

 

When I was in grammar school in the 1940s, we students MEMORIZED the decimal equivalents of all proper fractions having denominators 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 16, 20, 25.  It was easy, and saved repetitions long divisions (pre-calculator era).  

Answer 2

I will add this:

A fraction is nothing more than a division problem.  

 

a

-- = "a divided by b"

b

 

so now you know how to convert any fraction into a decimal.