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Can any decimal that ends with a digit in the thousandths place can be written as a fraction with a denominator that is divisible by both 2 and 5?

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No because it has to be a even number to be divisible by 2 and same goes with 5 something has to x the 2 with the number like 2/4=2 because 2x2 is 4
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Yes, we can .

A Fraction is terminating Decimal, if denominator of fraction contains terms in the form of
2^a,\text{or} 5^b,\text{or}2^a * 5^b.

It is given that , there is a digit at the thousandths place.

For,example


\rightarrow (7)/(8)=0.875

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