Word problems

Question

There are two parking lots near a concert hall the covered parking lot is 5-6 miles away the open-air parking lot is 0.8 miles away which parking lot is closer to the concert hall?

Answer 1

Are you saying the covered lot is 5/6 miles away?

 

5/6 as a decimal = 0.83333....... (the 3's go on infinitely)

 

Clearly, that is larger than 0.8, so the open-air lot is closer.

 

To convert 5/6 to a decimal, simply divide the numerator by the denominator. In other words, how many times does 6 go into 5? Since 6 is larger than 5, when we set up the long-division problem, we have to add a decimal and two zeros to the end of 5. Now we have 5.00 divided by 6.