What is 8/9 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: 8/9 as a decimal is 0.889

Let's look into the division method to write 8/9 as a decimal.

Explanation: 

Writing 8/9 as a decimal using division method

To convert any fraction to decimal form, we just need to divide its numerator by the denominator.

Here, the fraction is 8/9 which means we need to perform 8 ÷ 9

This gives the answer as 0.889. So, 8/9 as a decimal is 0.889

You can also verify your answer using Cuemath's Fraction to Decimal Calculator.

Thus, 8/9 as a decimal is 0.889