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Express as a common fraction: 0.090909090909.... * 0.777777777777....

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Ah this kind of question is great! There's a strange and lovely relationship between repeating decimals and constants divided by 9 (or 99 or 999). An explanatory example is ".777777..." which can actually be expressed as 7/9. And ".09090909..." can be expressed as 09/99 or 1/11.
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