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What is 8/3 as a decimal and if needed what is the repeating number for the division.

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Set up 8/3 in a long division chart.

You can see how every time I put in 6 to get the number just under 20, I got 18 and subtracted to bring down 2. Then I put the 0 after the decimal because that is the math rule, and I got 20 again. It continues infinitely. So we see our answer is 2.666 with a small line above the last six indicating it is repeating. We write the repeating decimal with 3 places of the value, such as 3 sixes and then put a line over the last to show it repeats forever. However, let's say it was 2.08080808. We would have to put 3 sets of 08 and make it look like 2.080808 with a line over the last pair of 08 to show the 08 repeats.

What is 8/3 as a decimal and if needed what is the repeating number for the division-example-1
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