Convert Fraction to Decimal: Finding the Decimal Form of 1/2

Question

Convert $\frac{1}{2}$ into a decimal.

00:00 Convert to decimal fraction

00:03 Change the denominator to any multiple of 10 and 10

00:07 Make sure to multiply both numerator and denominator

00:17 Convert to decimal fraction

00:22 When the denominator equals 10, place the numerator right after the decimal point

00:25 And this is the solution to the question

To solve this problem, we'll express the fraction $\frac{1}{2}$ as a decimal following these steps:

Step 1: Begin with the fraction $\frac{1}{2}$ .
Step 2: To convert this fraction to a denominator of 100, multiply the numerator and the denominator by 50:

$\frac{1 \times 50}{2 \times 50} = \frac{50}{100}$

This fraction is read as 50 hundredths, which converts directly to the decimal form:

$0.5$

Therefore, the decimal representation of the fraction $\frac{1}{2}$ is 0.5.

0.5