Let's use the fraction 1/8 as an example. You can say it as one over eight or one eighths. To convert it to a decimal, you divide the numerator (the number on top) by the denominator (the number on the bottom). So, if you divide 1 by 8, you get 0.125. That's the decimal number for 1/8.
Another example:
To write the fraction 1/4 as a decimal, you would divide the 1 by the 4, which equals .25 To write it in words it is one fourth, or twenty five hundredths.
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Restate the question: If you can write a fraction as a decimal, can you write a decimal as a fraction?Yes.
That already is a decimal fraction.
As a fraction, you can write it as 8/10. As a decimal, you can write it as 0.8.
Fraction: 99/100 Decimal: 0.99
8.1% = 0.081 in decimal = 81/1000 in fraction