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Fractions and decimals, including recurring decimals worksheet — GCSE Higher
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Fractions and decimals, including recurring decimals worksheet — GCSE Higher
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- 1.Write 0.325 as a fraction in its simplest form.
- 2.A carton of orange juice holds 1.35 litres. Ruby pours the juice equally into 4 identical glasses. Work out how much juice is in each glass, giving your answer as a fraction of a litre in its simplest form.
- 3.Write 7/12 as a decimal, showing clearly which digit is recurring.
- 4.The decimal 0.272727... repeats the block 27 for ever. Write 0.27 recurring as a fraction in its simplest form.
- 5.Write 0.36 as a fraction in its simplest form.
- 6.Write 0.875 as a fraction in its simplest form.
- 7.Write 0.06 as a fraction in its simplest form.
- 8.The recurring decimal 0.181818... can be written as 0.18 recurring, where both digits repeat forever. Let x = 0.18 recurring. Work out x as a fraction in its simplest form.
- 9.Write 5/6 as a decimal, showing clearly which digit recurs.
- 10.Write down the exact decimal value of the fraction 1/6.
- 11.A set of kitchen scales displays the mass of a bag of sugar as 0.63 recurring kilograms, meaning 0.636363... kg with the block '63' repeating forever. Convert this mass to a fraction of a kilogram, then work out the mass in grams, giving your answer to the nearest gram.
- 12.A recipe uses 0.625 kg of flour. Write this mass as a fraction of a kilogram, in its simplest form.
- 13.Sam compares 0.6 and 5/8 by comparing the digit 6 with the digit 5, and says that 0.6 is the larger number. Convert 5/8 to a decimal to find the correct larger value.
- 14.A student writes 0.08 as the fraction 8/10, reading the 8 as if it stood in the tenths column and ignoring the zero. Work out the correct fraction that 0.08 is equal to, giving your answer in its simplest form.
- 15.Write 0.35 as a fraction in its lowest terms.
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