Question: 1/2 is equal to how many tenths?
Answer: 15 instead of the correct equivalent of 0.2. Lee's picture shows that he divided 1 whole (1.0, or 10 tenths) into 5 parts and shaded 1 part to get 2 tenths. A common procedure for converting a fraction to a decimal number is to divide 1 (or 1.0 or 10 tenths) by 5 to get 0.2.