What is 17 over 42 as a decimal?

Here we will explain what 17 over 42 (seventeen over forty-two) as a decimal means and show you how to calculate 17 over 42 as a decimal.

A fraction has a numerator over a denominator separated by a division bar. 17 over 42 means that 17 is the numerator, "over" is the division bar, and 42 is the denominator.

17 over 42 is therefore the same as the fraction 17/42. However, we don't want a fraction, we want 17 over 42 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 42 as a decimal, we divide 17 by 42.

When we calculated 17 divided by 42, we found that 17 over 42 as a decimal (seventeen over forty-two as a decimal) is as follows:

0.4047619

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