What is 6 over 42 as a decimal?

Here we will explain what 6 over 42 (six over forty-two) as a decimal means and show you how to calculate 6 over 42 as a decimal.

A fraction has a numerator over a denominator separated by a division bar. 6 over 42 means that 6 is the numerator, "over" is the division bar, and 42 is the denominator.

6 over 42 is therefore the same as the fraction 6/42. However, we don't want a fraction, we want 6 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 6 over 42 as a decimal, we divide 6 by 42.

When we calculated 6 divided by 42, we found that 6 over 42 as a decimal (six over forty-two as a decimal) is as follows:

0.14285714

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