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Marco states that 7.696696669...... is a rational numberbecause it is a repeating decimal. Is he correct? Justifyyour answer.Yes he is correct because it keeps going and going and it will go on forever and ever so that is my guess

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The answer is NO, Marco is wrong.

The number 7.696696669.... has not a repeating decimal there is no a number that is repeating, like 0.6969696969... in the last number the 69 is repeating, in the Marco's number the decimal number change every time.

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