How do you find the decimal of (-9)/5?

3 Answers
Aug 31, 2017

-1.8

Explanation:

To find the decimal of a fraction, you just need to divide the top by the bottom. The top is the numerator and the bottom is the denominator.

So, when we divided (-9)/5 it equals to -1.8 decimal.

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Aug 31, 2017

Divide the numerator by the denominator.

(-9)/5=-1.8

Aug 7, 2018

-1 4/5 = -1.8

Explanation:

You can change the improper fraction to a mixed number:

-9/5 = -1 4/5

Now change the 4/5 to an equivalent fraction with a denominator of 10 which will be easy to write as a decimal.

4/5 xx2/2 = 8/10 = 0.8

-1 4/5 = -1.8