Question

16/25 in decimal form

Answer 1

16/25 in decimal form is 0.64

Answer 2

In order to write $\frac{16}{25}$ as a decimal, we need to find a fraction equivalent to $\frac{16}{25}$ with a 100 in the denominator. Notice that if we multiply the numerator and the denominator of $\frac{18}{25}$ by 4, we get the equivalent fraction $\frac{64}{100}$ which we can now write as a decimal. Remember that the hundredths place is two places to the right of the decimal point so we can write 72/100 as 0.72.