What is 7 over 42 as a decimal?

Here we will explain what 7 over 42 (seven over forty-two) as a decimal means and show you how to calculate 7 over 42 as a decimal.

A fraction has a numerator over a denominator separated by a division bar. 7 over 42 means that 7 is the numerator, "over" is the division bar, and 42 is the denominator.

7 over 42 is therefore the same as the fraction 7/42. However, we don't want a fraction, we want 7 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 7 over 42 as a decimal, we divide 7 by 42.

When we calculated 7 divided by 42, we found that 7 over 42 as a decimal (seven over forty-two as a decimal) is as follows:

0.16666667

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