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Is 22/7 a repeating decimal? explain

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Well, the way you wrote it ... 22/7 ... it's not a decimal at all.
It's an improper fraction. But I understand what you mean.

Remember ... a fraction is a short way to write a division problem.
Whenever you see a fraction, it means

(the top number) divided by (the bottom number) .

If you take your pencil and paper, or your calculator, and do
the division '22' divided by '7' ... very easy to do; you really
should have done it on your own ... you get

3.142857...

That group after the decimal point ... the " 142857 " ... does
repeat forever. So 22/7 does produce a repeating decimal.

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