What is 2/9 as a decimal?

2/9 as a decimal is 0.2222...

The fraction $$\frac29$$ is written in decimal form on the right side.

To convert the fraction to its decimal form, just divide the numerator by the denominator.- The numerator of the fraction is the number at the top of the fraction and the denominator is the number at the bottom of the fraction.- The numerator of the fraction is the dividend and the denominator is the divisor.

Let’s see how we can carry out this division.

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Here we can see that at each step the remainder 2 is repeated.

In a division, when the remainder is repeated, it means the answer is a repeating decimal.A repeating decimal is a decimal in which the digits repeat in a sequence.

We can see that 2 is repeated, hence the decimal form of the fraction is 0.2222….We can also write this as which means that 2 is repeated.

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In the fraction $$\frac29$$, the number 2 is the dividend (our numerator)
The number 9 is our divisor (our denominator).

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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