Yellow
Green
Blue
Red
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- If the red circle is the unit whole, write the fraction as a number for each set of pieces.
- four purple pieces
- two green pieces
- a pink piece
- five purple pieces
- four green pieces
- eight purple pieces
- Look at Questions 17A and B. Compare the fractions. What do you notice?
- Do you see this in any other fractions?
- We can use decimals to represent the fractions in Question 17. For example, we can write: 0.1 (one-tenth) for one purple piece, 0.2 (two-tenths) for two purple pieces, or 0.2 for one green piece. Write decimals for the following:
- four purple pieces
- two green pieces
- a pink piece
- five purple pieces
- four green pieces
- eight purple pieces
