What is 17 over 20 as a decimal?

Here we will explain what 17 over 20 (seventeen over twenty) as a decimal means and show you how to calculate 17 over 20 as a decimal.

A fraction has a numerator over a denominator separated by a division bar. 17 over 20 means that 17 is the numerator, "over" is the division bar, and 20 is the denominator.

17 over 20 is therefore the same as the fraction 17/20. However, we don't want a fraction, we want 17 over 20 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 17 over 20 as a decimal, we divide 17 by 20.

When we calculated 17 divided by 20, we found that 17 over 20 as a decimal (seventeen over twenty as a decimal) is as follows:

0.85

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