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What is the decimal form of 6/8?

Answer 1

#6/8=0.75#

To convert a fraction into decimal, one needs to first make the denominator a power of #10#. It is easy if denominator's only prime factors are #2# and #5#. As one can multiply by #5#s and #2#'s to get the same.

Here we have #8=2xx2xx2# so do we need to multiply by #5xx5xx5#. But as #2# is also a factor of numerator, one #2# will cancel out and we need to multiply by #5xx5# only.

Hence #6/8=(cancel2xx3xx5xx5)/(cancel2xx2xx2xx5xx5)#

= #75/100=0.75#

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Answer 2

Luna Angel

The decimal form of 6/8 is 0.75.

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Answer from HIX Tutor

When evaluating a one-sided limit, you need to be careful when a quantity is approaching zero since its sign is different depending on which way it is approaching zero from. Let us look at some examples.