Exam 15: Expressing Common Fractions and Mixed Numbers As Decimals

The actual width of a pine board is 7 1/5 inches. Write the width in decimal form.

To change a fraction to a decimal, divide the denominator by the numerator.

A piece of plywood is 0.215 inch thick. What is its thickness in common fraction form?

Change 0.360 to a fraction.

The actual thickness of a piece of textured panel is 2/3 inch. What is the thickness written as a decimal fraction?

A floor has a concrete slab with an elevation of 166.70 feet. It is be finished with underlayment and bamboo flooring having a total thickness of 1/4 inch. What is the elevation of the finished floor?

Those fractions yielding a repeating decimal should be rounded off to the desired number of places.

Approximately 4 1/4 pounds of nails are needed for each 100 square feet of subflooring. Write this weight in decimal form.

Change 1/5 to a decimal.

Find the approximate thickness in common fraction form of a piece of siding 0.4688 inch thick.