Writing a fraction as a decimal

Difficulty Standard · Set s80egw

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Write45as a decimal.
2
Write410as a decimal.
3
Write220as a decimal.
4
Write24as a decimal.
5
Write45as a decimal.
6
Write25as a decimal.
7
Write1516as a decimal.
8
Write14as a decimal.
9
Write34as a decimal.
10
Write210as a decimal.
11
Write45as a decimal.
12
Write810as a decimal.
13
Write28as a decimal.
14
Write45as a decimal.
15
Write1416as a decimal.
16
Write916as a decimal.
17
Write25as a decimal.
18
Write34as a decimal.
19
Write35as a decimal.
20
Write816as a decimal.

What is in this set

The numbers in this set run from 1 to 20.
A careful solution takes 2 written steps on average.
The mistake this set invites most often, in 100% of the problems: the two numbers were written either side of the point; a fraction becomes a decimal by dividing the top by the bottom.
Answers are a decimal.

Drawing 240 problems from this page produced 55 different ones, 23% — so a sheet of 20 will come back to a problem you have seen — there are only so many sensible ones of this kind.

The same skill, harder or easier

We would put this in front of a grade 5 class. That is our judgement, not a standard, and it is printed here so you can disagree with it. Everything else we put in that year.