how do you write in decimal form, five and fourteen thousandths?

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dev · Accepted Answer

Can you please tell me what do you get when you subtract 1000 miles from 231.05 miles?

Lily · Answer

5.014 I believe. What you do is you would leave the whole number and put it behind the decimal and then divide 14 by 1000.

Machinist · Answer

To convert a fraction into decimal form, for example. 5 " 1/32" that's five inches and one thirty second of a inch. So 1 ÷ 32= 0.03125 of a inch. Most cases people only use the first 3 digits after the decimal, cause past that is ten thousandths then hundred thousandths then millionths, and that's very very tiny microscopic measurements. A human hair is about 0.003" thick or 3 thousands thick. Not all measurement are standard, some could be metric. 1/64" is fairly hard to see with the naked eye but some can. 1÷64= 0.015 so that's 15 thousands, so your number is 14 thousands and past the standard measurements on a scale or precision ruler. That gives you a idea about how fractions and decimals in inches work. And thousands of a inch is widly used but 10 thousands of and inch is more rare to see being used. There are 1000 thousands in one inch. .999 is .0001 away from being 1 inch 1.000" hope this helps someone or atleast find it Interesting.