Polly’s Pizza is launching a new extra-large pizza. Polly, the owner, hasn’t decided whether to slice each pizza into tenths, twelfths, or sixteenths. For each of the following questions, if the answer is a terminating decimal number, write the terminating decimal number. If the answer is a repeating decimal number, write the repeating decimal number and state which digits repeat.
If Polly decides to slice each pizza into
10 equal slices, how much of the pizza is each slice in decimal form?
Each slice would be 0.1 (a tenth) of the pizza.
To find out how much of the pizza each slice is in decimal form, you can divide 1 by the number of slices.
If Polly decides to slice each pizza into 10 equal slices, each slice would be:
1/10 = 0.1 (a terminating decimal)
Hence, each slice would be 0.1 or 1/10 of the whole pizza.