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What is 1/6 as a decimal?
A decimal number can be defined as a number whose whole number part and the fractional part is separated by a decimal point.
Answer: 1/6 as a decimal is 0.166......
Let's look into the division method to write 1/6 as a decimal.
Explanation:
Writing 1/6 as a decimal using division method
To convert any fraction to decimal form, we just need to divide its numerator by denominator.
Here, the fraction is 1/6 which means we need to perform 1 ÷ 6.
This gives the answer as 0.1666... So, 1/6 as a decimal is 0.16666...
This is a non-terminating repeating decimal number.
Irrespective of the methods used, the answer to 1/6 as a decimal will always remain the same.
You can also verify your answer using Cuemath's Fraction to Decimal Calculator.