Calculators can make decimal easy and fractions hard when doing it yourself fractions are much easier it’s an anti-cheat of sorts
Edit: I’m getting a lot of flak for something explicitly stated in a text book, yeah some calculators can but they are less common especially in grade school and it could just be a carry over from time’s when calculators couldn’t, my point is that this isn’t some random theory it’s a real thing real text books have done.
That’s absolutely stupid if you’re talking about a number that can be represented exactly in both notations.
Unless the course or assignment is specifically about fractions.
At least I was thought to use the same format for results as the assignment.
Calculators can make decimal easy and fractions hard when doing it yourself fractions are much easier it’s an anti-cheat of sorts
Edit: I’m getting a lot of flak for something explicitly stated in a text book, yeah some calculators can but they are less common especially in grade school and it could just be a carry over from time’s when calculators couldn’t, my point is that this isn’t some random theory it’s a real thing real text books have done.
Yeah… because you cant just calculate the decimal from fractions with a calculator…