What is 0.5 as a fraction?

To express 0.5 as a fraction, you can write it as 1/2.

Step-by-step calculation to convert 0.5 to a fraction:

Step 1: Write down the decimal as a fraction with the decimal number as the numerator and 1 followed by the same number of zeros as the number of decimal places as the denominator.

For 0.5, the decimal number is 5, and there is one decimal place, so the fraction is 510105​.

Step 2: Simplify the fraction by dividing both the numerator and denominator by their greatest common divisor, which is 5 in this case.

5/10 = 1/2

So, 0.5 can be expressed as 1/2​ when written as a fraction.