five tenths of an inch (5/10)
There 12 inches to a foot, so 120 tenths of an inch to a foot.
0.5 inches
Is this what you meant your question to be? "Is 3 tenths of an inch a third of an inch?" If so, the answer is no. 1/3" = 0.333333333333…inches, where 3/10" = 0.3 inches excatly.
There were some things that used to be measured in sixteenths of an inch - a sixteenth being a half of a half of a half of a half. You can get precision rulers with inches divided into 32 equal parts. Most rulers give tenths.
five tenths of an inch (5/10)
There 12 inches to a foot, so 120 tenths of an inch to a foot.
If you need to convert them you take the number of inches and move the decimal over one space. Example: 2.0 inches = what number of tenths? 2.0 becomes 20 There are 20 tenths of inches in 2 inches.
0.5 inches
There are ten tenths in an inch. Therefore, 2 inches would have 20 tenths.
One tenth of an inch = .1 inches.
Is this what you meant your question to be? "Is 3 tenths of an inch a third of an inch?" If so, the answer is no. 1/3" = 0.333333333333…inches, where 3/10" = 0.3 inches excatly.
There were some things that used to be measured in sixteenths of an inch - a sixteenth being a half of a half of a half of a half. You can get precision rulers with inches divided into 32 equal parts. Most rulers give tenths.
Rulers are divided into inches and fractions of an inch. One of those fractions will be tenths of an inch. So you want one inch and 9 tenths of an inch to make 1.9 inches.
A penny is about eight tenths of an inch.
"Tenth" is not a unit of measurement, it is a number. "tenth" is a unit of measurment, oldschool ie; one inch = 10/10 - half an inch = 5/10
A half of an inch and 0.5 inches are the same length.