What is 20 over 40 as a decimal?

Here we will explain what 20 over 40 (twenty over forty) as a decimal means and show you how to calculate 20 over 40 as a decimal.

A fraction has a numerator over a denominator separated by a division bar. 20 over 40 means that 20 is the numerator, "over" is the division bar, and 40 is the denominator.

20 over 40 is therefore the same as the fraction 20/40. However, we don't want a fraction, we want 20 over 40 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 20 over 40 as a decimal, we divide 20 by 40.

When we calculated 20 divided by 40, we found that 20 over 40 as a decimal (twenty over forty as a decimal) is as follows:

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