What is 1.875 reduced as a fraction?

Answer 1

Hello Brianna:

look at how many decimal places the .875 is. Its 3 decimal places.

In this case its in the thousandths position. So, write the 875 OVER the number 1000.

875

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1000 Now, which number will DIVIDE into the 875 and 1000

EVENLY? And, its the number 125. 125 will divide into 875

7 times, and 125 will divide into 1000 8 times.

875 x 125 =7

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1000 125 8

Final answer is: 1 7

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8 or ONE and SEVEN EIGHTHS.

Hope this helps!