Big Ideas Math: Modeling Real Life, Grade 7
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3. Converting Between Fractions and Decimals
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Exercise 29 Page 65

The decimal number - 0.258 can be read as - 258 thousandths.

- 129/500

Practice makes perfect

We want to write the given decimal number as a fraction. - 0.258 To make this easier, we can keep in mind that this number can be read as - 258 thousandths. This means that we can write it as a fraction with a numerator of - 258 and with a denominator of 1000. Then, we can simplify the fraction by dividing both the numerator and denominator by 2.

- 258/1000
- 258/1000
- 258/2/1000/2
- 129/500