The line in a fraction can be read as "divided by." Completing the division leads to the equivalent decimal.
4/5 = four divided by five = 0.8
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Decimals and fractions are ways of representing numbers. Division is an arithmetic operation between two numbers (and the inverse of the multiplication operation). One form of writing the division operation looks like a fraction.
They are related because you can comvert decimals into fractions,and fractions into decimals.
They can show the same number, just in different ways. You can convert fractions into decimals or decimals into fractions.
One way to do it is to convert them to decimals by performing the division. Equivalent fractions become the same decimal.
Yes providing you change the fractions into decimals or change the decimals into fractions