Linking Fractions and Decimals: A Comprehensive Overview

The video tutorial explains the relationship between fractions and decimals, highlighting how they represent numbers between whole numbers. It covers the concept of place values, including tenths and hundredths, and demonstrates how to convert between decimals and fractions. The tutorial provides examples and practice problems to reinforce understanding, emphasizing the equivalence of fractions and decimals.

What can be used to represent amounts between whole numbers?

• Only decimals

• Fractions or decimals

• Only fractions

• Only whole numbers

What does the decimal 0.1 represent?

• Ten

• One hundredth

• One tenth

• One

How can five-tenths be simplified?

• Two-fifths

• Five

• One-half

• Ten

What does the decimal 0.01 represent?

• One hundredth

• One tenth

• One

• Ten

What is ten hundredths equivalent to?

• One hundredth

• One

• One tenth

• Ten

What is the decimal equivalent of fourteen hundredths?

• 0.14

• 0.014

• 14

• 1.4

What is the decimal form of fifty three hundredths?

• 53

• 0.053

• 5.3

• 0.53

How is eight tenths written as a decimal?

• 80

• 0.08

• 8

• 0.8

What is the decimal equivalent of three tenths plus six hundredths?

• 36

• 3.6

• 0.36

• 0.306

What is the decimal representation of nine hundredths plus seven tenths?

• 79

• 7.9

• 0.79

• 0.097