Question

Write the decimal for fraction $\frac{5}{1000}$ ?

Answer 1

In the fraction $\frac{5}{1000},$

$5$ is the numerator and $1000$ is the denominator, the fraction bar means "divided by".

Therefore, the fraction $\frac{5}{1000}$ is same as "$5$ divided by $1000$“ or ”$5÷1000$".

we know that $\frac{1}{1000}=0.001$

When we calculated $5$ divided by $1000$, we found that $\frac{5}{1000}$ in decimal form is:

$\frac{5}{1000}=0.005$

Hence, decimal form of $\frac{5}{1000}$ is $0.005$.