Just divide the top by the bottom
so.....
5 divided by 8
.... which is 0.625 :)
1.625
One and a half is twelve eights.plus five eights, is seventeen eights. That is two and one eighth in total, or 2.125 in decimal.
four/eights simplified would be one/half so it'd be 0.5
.125 :]
one and three-eights
It is ten eights, or one and two eights or one and a quarter or 1.25 as a decimal.
0.125
0.125
one and five eights
3.125
6.15 my* * * * *Wrong.6.125
Eleven eights, which is one and three eights.