About 1/11 of the Canadian population lives in Alberta

Question

About 1/11 of the Canadian population lives in Alberta.

 

a) express this fraction as a decimal 

 

b) round your answer to the nearrest thousandth

Answer 1

1/11 = 0.09090909...  

 

The "..." indicates that the pattern keeps repeating forever.  You can indicate this by writing 0.09 with a horizontal line over the 09 part.  

 

To round this to the nearest thousandth you go 3 digits past the decimal point.  The first digit is the tenths, the second is the hundredths.  So to round to the nearest thousandth it is 

 

0.091