5.5
5.5
To simplify five tenths you can write it as a decimal .5 which would mean one half. Five tenths simplified is one half.
The number .5 is five tenths. Note that this is equal to one half.
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.
Five and a half minutes can be written as a decimal by converting the half minute into a fraction of a minute. Since half a minute is 0.5 minutes, you add this to the five minutes. Therefore, five and a half minutes is written as 5.5 minutes in decimal form.
1/2 = .5 so 35 and a half = 35.5
The word form for 0.5 is "zero point five" or "five tenths" or "one half". The decimal form for 0.5 is " 0.5 ".
5.5
5.5
one half in decimal = 0.5
Five and a half percent is .055 as a decimal.
Five point five. Numerically, that's 5.5.