What is 7/8 in Decimal form?

Let us see how to convert the fraction 7/8 to its decimal form.

Answer: 7/8 is expressed as 0.875 in its decimal form.

To convert 7/8 to decimal we need to divide 7 by 8.

Explanation:

In 7/8, the dividend is 7 and the divisor is 8.

On performing long division, we get a quotient of 0.875  with 0 as the remainder.

Another easy way to convert a fraction to a decimal is to convert the denominator into the powers of 10.

Since 8 × 125 = 1000

We can convert 7/8 into an equivalent fraction whose denominator is 1000 by multiplying it with 125

7/8 × 125/125 = 875/1000

= 0.875

Thus, 7/8 is expressed as 0.875 in its decimal form.