What is 0.5 as a fraction?

Do you want to know how to write the decimal number 0.5 as a fraction?

Here we will show you step-by-step how to convert 0.5 so you can write it as a fraction.

You can take any number, such as 0.5, and write a 1 as the denominator to make it a fraction and keep the same value, like this:

0.5 / 1

To get rid of the decimal point in the numerator, we count the numbers after the decimal in 0.5, and multiply the numerator and denominator by 10 if it is 1 number, 100 if it is 2 numbers, 1000 if it is 3 numbers, and so on.

Therefore, in this case we multiply the numerator and denominator by 10 to get the following fraction:

5 / 10

Then, we need to divide the numerator and denominator by the greatest common divisor (GCD) to simplify the fraction.

The GCD of 5 and 10 is 5. When we divide the numerator and denominator by 5, we get the following:

1 / 2

Therefore, 0.5 as a fraction is as follows:

1 / 2

Bonus: If the answer above is an improper fraction, then we also display the mixed number answer below:

n/a

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