Writing a decimal as a fraction

Difficulty Stretch · Set 0d8wek

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1
Write 0.325 as a fraction in its lowest terms.
2
Write 0.882 as a fraction in its lowest terms.
3
Write 0.793 as a fraction in its lowest terms.
4
Write 0.865 as a fraction in its lowest terms.
5
Write 0.119 as a fraction in its lowest terms.
6
Write 0.834 as a fraction in its lowest terms.
7
Write 0.378 as a fraction in its lowest terms.
8
Write 0.268 as a fraction in its lowest terms.
9
Write 0.479 as a fraction in its lowest terms.
10
Write 0.012 as a fraction in its lowest terms.
11
Write 0.517 as a fraction in its lowest terms.
12
Write 0.168 as a fraction in its lowest terms.
13
Write 0.012 as a fraction in its lowest terms.
14
Write 0.837 as a fraction in its lowest terms.
15
Write 0.136 as a fraction in its lowest terms.
16
Write 0.142 as a fraction in its lowest terms.
17
Write 0.634 as a fraction in its lowest terms.
18
Write 0.084 as a fraction in its lowest terms.
19
Write 0.844 as a fraction in its lowest terms.
20
Write 0.208 as a fraction in its lowest terms.

What is in this set

The numbers in this set run from 0.007 to 0.995.
58% of them need simplifying at the end.
42% of them are already in their lowest terms.
A careful solution takes 2 written steps on average.
The mistake this set invites most often, in 58% of the problems: right value, but 342/1000 is not in its lowest terms.
Answers are a fraction in its lowest terms, written like 3/4.

Drawing 240 problems from this page produced 223 different ones, 93% — so a sheet of 20 is a new sheet almost every time.

The same skill, harder or easier

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