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Give an example of a repeating decimal where two digits repeat. Explain why your number is a rational number?

Please help. Don't understand this. :(

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an example of a repeating decimal would be 6.78787878. a rational number is a number that can be represented a/b where a and b are integers and b isnt equal to 0, so any decimal number that is repeating can be written in the form a/b with b not equal to zero so it is a rational number
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