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
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.
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.
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.
There are two half-inches in one inch.
A half of an inch and 0.5 inches are the same length.
"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 penny is about eight tenths of an inch.