Using the place value chart, we can see that the decimal 0.5 is five-tenths, so we can write 0.5 as the fraction [tex]\frac{5}{10}[/tex]. We are able to simplify so we will divide the numerator and the denominator by 5.
Therefore, 0.5 can be written as the fraction [tex]\frac{1}{2}[/tex].
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