What is 17 over 6 as a decimal?

Here we will explain what 17 over 6 (seventeen over six) as a decimal means and show you how to calculate 17 over 6 as a decimal.

A fraction has a numerator over a denominator separated by a division bar. 17 over 6 means that 17 is the numerator, "over" is the division bar, and 6 is the denominator.

17 over 6 is therefore the same as the fraction 17/6. However, we don't want a fraction, we want 17 over 6 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 6 as a decimal, we divide 17 by 6.

When we calculated 17 divided by 6, we found that 17 over 6 as a decimal (seventeen over six as a decimal) is as follows:

2.83333333

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