What is 1 divided by 5?

The answer to the question: What is 1 divided by 5 is as follows:

1 / 5 = 0.2

Instead of saying 1 divided by 5 equals 0.2, you could just use the division symbol, which is a slash, as we did above.

Also note that all answers in our division calculations are rounded to three decimals if necessary.

Here are some other ways to display or communicate that 1 divided by 5 equals 0.2:

1 ÷ 5 = 0.2
1 over 5 = 0.2
¹⁄₅ = 0.2

The easiest way we found to answer the question "what 1 divided by 5 means", is to answer the question with a question: How many times does 5 go into 1?

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