Question

which is smaller amount 1/5 or 0.3 ? explain

Answer 1

Answer:

0.3

Step-by-step explanation:

To get the answer, we first convert each fraction into decimal numbers. We do this by dividing the numerator by the denominator for each fraction as illustrated below:

1/5 = 0.2  

Then, we compare the two decimal numbers to get the answer.

0.2 is not greater than 0.3.

Therefore, 1/5 is not greater than 0.3

Answer 2

Given: The numbers are 1/5 and 0.3

To find The smaller between the above two numbers

Solution: The given two numbers are 1/5 and 0.3, one is the fractional number and the other one is the decimal number and we have to convert either the fractional number to a decimal number or vice-versa.

Therefore we chose the conversion of fractional number into the decimal number that means we have to convert 1/5 into a decimal number and it is 0.2 as while dividing 1 by 5, we get a zero after 1 makes it greater than 5, and then only we can perform division. We get zero by using a decimal point in the quotient.

So 1/5 is equal to 0.2

Now comparing 0.2 and 0.3, we get 0.2 as the smaller amount(0.2<0.3).

Hence the smaller amount between 1/5 and 0.3 is 1/5.