To write five and nine tenths as a decimal, you simply place the whole number part before the decimal point and the decimal part after the decimal point. Therefore, five and nine tenths is written as 5.9 in decimal form.
5/10 = 1/2
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It is: 5 and 5/10 = 5.5 as a decimal
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5.7
3.5
To write fifty-eight tenths as a decimal, you divide 58 by 10. This division gives you 5.8, which is the decimal equivalent of fifty-eight tenths. The digit 5 is in the tenths place, representing the 5 tenths in the number.
Four tenths as a fraction: 4/10 ---> 2/5 Four tenths as a decimal: 0.4