Big Ideas Math: Modeling Real Life, Grade 7
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1. Fractions, Decimals and Percents
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Exercise 37 Page 240

Change the number to a decimal.

D

Practice makes perfect

We have the following number line.

Given number line
We want to know to which of the letters corresponds to 56. To do this, let's first write this fraction as a decimal by dividing the numerator by the denominator.
5/6=0.833...
We see that 56 = 0.833... This means that 56 is between 0.83 and 0.84. 0.83 < 0.833... < 0.84 Let's mark these bounds on the number line and see which letter falls between them.
Number line with bounds marked

Only letter D falls within these bounds, so D shows the graph of 56.