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Let's see if we can write 0.36 as a fraction.
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There are several ways of doing it. The way I like to do it is to say, well,
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0.36, this is the same thing as 36 hundredths. Or, one way to think about it is,
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This is in the hundredths place..
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This is in the tenths place, or you could view this as 30 hundredths. You can view this as 3 tenths or 30 hundredths.
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So we could say that this is the same thing as 36 hundredths or this is equal to "36 over 100."
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We've already expressed it as a fraction, but now we can actually simplify it, because both 36 and 100 have some common factors.
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They are both divisible by 4, so if we could divide the numerator by 4, and the denominator by 4 (we're doing the same thing to both, so we're not changing the value of the fraction),
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36 divided by 4 is 9. And then 100 divided by 4 is 25.
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And now these two characters don't seem to share any other common factors,
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so we've written it in simplified form. And we're done.
