Convert Decimal to Fraction: Simplifying 0.25 to Lowest Terms

You're absolutely right that $0.25 = \frac{1}{4}$! However, the question asks to reduce the fraction 0.25, and decimals are already considered reduced forms. The answer stays as 0.25.

All terminating decimals (ones that end, like 0.25, 0.5, 0.125) are automatically in their simplest form. They don't need further reduction like fractions do.

Fractions like $\frac{25}{100}$ can be reduced to $\frac{1}{4}$, but decimals like 0.25 are already simplified. Think of decimals as the "final form" of division.

The incorrect answers change the value of 0.25:

• 2.5 = ten times larger
• 25 = one hundred times larger
• 0.2 = smaller than original

Only 0.25 keeps the same value.

You reduce fractions like $\frac{6}{8}$ to $\frac{3}{4}$ by dividing by common factors. But decimals like 0.75 are already as simple as they can be!