Simplify the Fraction: Converting 12/300 to Its Simplest Form

Question

$\frac{12}{300}=\text{ ?}$

00:00 Convert to decimal fraction

00:03 Convert the fraction so that the denominator is a multiple of 10

00:07 Make sure to divide both numerator and denominator

00:14 Write the numerator as a number

00:19 Now according to the denominator, move the decimal point to the left

00:22 There are 2 zeros in the denominator, so move 2 places to the left

00:32 And this is the solution to the question

First we will divide both the numerator and denominator by 3 to get 100 in the denominator:

$\frac{12:3}{300:3}=\frac{4}{100}$

Now we'll rewrite the simple fraction as a decimal fraction:

$4.0$

Since the fraction divides by 100, we'll move the decimal point two places to the left:

$.040$

Now we will add the zero before the decimal point to get:

$0.040=0.04$

0.04