What does five sixths equal?

Answer 1

Ten twelves

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Don't be offended if my answer is beneath you, however I am assuming I am responding to a student with an honest question about fractions.

In a fraction you are looking at parts of a whole, thus if you think of this as a pie and the lower number as the number of pieces the pie has been cut into. the top number of peices you intend to remove or work with. thus your query of what does 5/6th equal... it can be equal to many things. if you cut each piece of pie into another equal piece then the above answer of 10/12 is correct. if you wish to make it a fraction then 5/6th equal .8333 where the 3 is endlessly repeating. when written on paper you would put a bar above the first 3 and drop the rest of them, note that the bar would not be over the 8 as it is not repeated. If expressed as a percentage then you would first convert to a decimal as above and then move the decimal 2 spaces to the right and add a % symbol (83.3%)

I hope this helped you out.

Answer 2

Five sixths is equal to approximately 0.8333 when converted to a decimal. In terms of fractions, it means that out of a total of 6 equal parts, 5 parts are being considered.