To express 0.25 as a fraction, you can see that it is already in decimal form, with two decimal places. To convert it to a fraction, you can use the following steps:
- Write down the decimal number as a fraction with the decimal part as the numerator and a power of 10 in the denominator that corresponds to the number of decimal places. In this case, you have 0.25, which has 2 decimal places.
- Write 0.25 as a fraction with 100 in the denominator because 0.25 has two decimal places:
0.25 = 25/100
- Simplify the fraction by finding the greatest common divisor (GCD) of the numerator and denominator. In this case, both 25 and 100 can be divided by 25:
25/100 = (25 ÷ 25) / (100 ÷ 25) = 1/4
So, 0.25 as a fraction is 1/4.
