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How do u write -59.05 as a fraction

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Answer: 59 1/2

Explanation:

There is not much that can be done to figure out how to write 59.05 as a fraction, except to literally use what the decimal portion of your number, the .05, means.

Since there are 2 digits in 05, the very last digit is the "100th" decimal place.

So we can just say that .05 is the same as 05/100.

The fraction is not reduced to lowest terms. We can reduce this fraction to lowest

terms by dividing both the numerator and denominator by 5.

Why divide by 5? 5 is the Greatest Common Divisor (GCD)

or Greatest Common Factor (GCF) of the numbers 5 and 100.

So, this fraction reduced to lowest terms is

So your final answer is: 59.05 can be written as the fraction

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