To express this as a decimal you have to treat the fraction part as a division. five sixths is 5/6 which works out at 0.8333rec
Thus as a decimal, five and five sixths is 5.8333...
To convert to a percentage, you just multiply by 100:
5.8333... x 100 = 583.333...
Thus as a percentage this is 583.333...%
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∙ 2012-02-26 20:42:21A fraction is not the same as a percentage. If you want the decimal equivalent of five sixths (5/6), it is 0.83333333333
1 and five sixths = 1.8333 . . .
fraction five thirty sixths as decimal = 0.13895/36:= 5 ÷ 36= 0.1389 in decimal
8.83333 . . .
4.83333 recurring
3.83333 repeating
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It would be approximately 83.3 %.
75/6 = 7.833...
83%5 / 6 = 0.833333333
5/6 = 83.33... %
Yes it is. Five sixths is about 0.83 in decimal and four fifths is exactly 0.8 in decimal.