Write the following as a common fraction or a mixed number. Write your answer in lowest terms.
0.44
0.44 = 44/100 = 11/25
Approximately 5 out of every 10 students at Kendra's college live on campus. The college has 5,000 students. How many of them live on campus?
To write 0.44 as a common fraction or a mixed number in lowest terms, we need to convert the decimal to a fraction.
Step 1: Count the decimal places, which in this case is 2 (since there are 2 digits after the decimal point).
Step 2: Place the decimal number over 1 followed by the same number of zeros as the number of decimal places. In this case, that gives us 0.44/1.00.
Step 3: Simplify the fraction by dividing both the numerator and denominator by their greatest common divisor (GCD). In this case, the GCD of 0.44 and 1.00 is 0.04.
By dividing both the numerator and denominator by 0.04, we get 11/25.
Therefore, 0.44 as a common fraction in lowest terms is 11/25.