6th Grade Math Textbook, Progress

Relate Fractions to Decimals

6-12

Choose the equivalent decimal or fraction.

0 1. 
 1

7

00 
 a. 0.700 b.0.07 c.0.007 d.700.7

0 2. 13 
 1208 
 0 a. 13.28 b.13.028 c.13.0028 d.0.1328

0 3. 
 11000 
^90 a. 100.9 b.0.0109 c.0.109 d.109.001

0 4. 8.09 a. 8 b. 8 c. 8 d.

0 5. 12.37 a. 12100037 b. 123107 c. 11000237 d. 1210037

89

100

9

1000

9

100

9

10

Fractions and mixed numbers with denominators that are powers of ten

can be renamed as decimals. The word names are the same.

170
0.7 3
1900
3.09
104 ,0^1
00 0.0041

1.7, , and 1 all have the same value.

They all name one and seven tenths.

To rename fractions and mixed numbers with denominators

that are powers of ten as decimals:


Read the given fraction. 
 1

8

00 
 eight hundredths

Determine the decimal place. hundredths: twodecimal places

Write an equivalent decimal. eight hundredths0.08

7

10

17

10

seven tenths three and nine hundredths forty-one ten thousandths

1 2

1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 1.6 1.7 1.8 1. 9 2.0

1101 1102 1103 1104 1105 1106 1107 1108 1109

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