What is 7/16 as a decimal?

7/16 as a decimal is 0.4375

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Question 1Convert the fraction

What is 7/16 written as a decimal?

Answer

0.4375.

Divide 7 by 16.

Question 2Check with multiplication

How can you check the decimal value of 7/16?

Answer

Multiply 0.4375 by 16; the result is 7.

Multiplication reverses the division used to convert the fraction.

Question 3Convert to a percentage

What percentage is equivalent to 7/16?

Answer

43.75%.

Multiply the decimal 0.4375 by 100.

Question 4Place the value on a number line

Between which two consecutive whole numbers does 7/16 lie?

Answer

It lies between 0 and 1.

Its decimal value is 0.4375.

Fill in the missing parts in the long division below and complete the answer.

$$\frac7?=0.4\_7\_$$

Solution

• As we can see that the quotient starts with 0…., we can say that the divisor is greater than the dividend. Hence 0 is added at each step to make the value divisible by the divisor.
• Start by finding the divisor. As we have the first digit of the quotient and the product 64, we can conclude that 16 x 4=64. Hence the divisor is 16.
• The blank in the second step is the difference between 70 and 64.
  70 - 64 = 6
• Find the blank in the quotient by finding the number of times 60 is divisible by 16.
  16 x 3 = 48. Hence the first blank in the quotient is 3.
• In the third step, we can see that 16 divides 120 seven times. Hence
  16 x 7 = 112
• The last blank in the quotient is the number of times 16 exactly divides 80.
  16 x 5 = 80

Find below the correct long division with the answers.

The long division method includes the conversion of a fraction into a decimal by division. The numerator of the fraction is the dividend and the denominator of the fraction is the divisor.

$$\frac{\mathbf7}{\mathbf{16}}\boldsymbol=\mathbf0\boldsymbol.\mathbf{4375}$$

Remember

Here are some common terms you should be familiar with.

• In the fraction $$\frac{7}{16}$$, the number 7 is the dividend (our numerator)
• The number 16 is our divisor (our denominator). 

Find More Fractions to Decimals

1/1 = 1	1/8 = 0.125	3/4 = 0.75	7/9 = 0.7	11/16 = 0.6875	8/9 = 0.8	7/8 = 0.875	4/5 = 0.8
1/2 = 0.5	1/9 = 0.1	2/5 = 0.4	3/10 = 0.3	15/32 = 0.4687	7/10 = 0.7	5/9 = 0.5	4/7 = 0.571
1/3 = 0.3	1/10 = 0.1	5/6 = 0.83	2/11 = 0.18	3/5 = 0.6	3/11 = 0.27	9/10 = 0.9
1/4 = 0.25	1/11 = 0.09	2/7 = 0.28571	5/11 = 0.45	3/7 = 0.428571	6/11 = 0.54	4/11 = 0.36
1/5 = 0.2	1/12 = 0.083	5/7 = 0.71428	8/11 = 0.72	6/7 = 0.85714	7/12 = 0.583	7/16 = 0.4375
1/6 = 0.16	1/16 = 0.0625	3/8 = 0.375	5/12 = 0.416	5/8 = 0.625	5/16 = 0.3125	15/16 = 0.9375
1/7 = 0.142857	2/3 = 0.6	2/9 = 0.2	3/16 = 0.1875	4/9 = 0.4	13/16 = 0.8125	19/32 = 0.5937

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