What is 12 over 17 as a decimal?

Here we will explain what 12 over 17 (twelve over seventeen) as a decimal means and show you how to calculate 12 over 17 as a decimal.

A fraction has a numerator over a denominator separated by a division bar. 12 over 17 means that 12 is the numerator, "over" is the division bar, and 17 is the denominator.

12 over 17 is therefore the same as the fraction 12/17. However, we don't want a fraction, we want 12 over 17 as a decimal. Like we established above, "over" is the same as division bar, which is the same as divide. Thus, to get the answer to 12 over 17 as a decimal, we divide 12 by 17.

When we calculated 12 divided by 17, we found that 12 over 17 as a decimal (twelve over seventeen as a decimal) is as follows:

0.70588235

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