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How are rational munbers written as decimals

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Here, we want to get how rationalnumbers are written as decimals

Rational numbers are numbers that could be expressed as the ratio of two integers

They are numbers that could be written in the form:


(a)/(b)

To write them in decimal, we simply divide a by b

These decimals however could be terminating or recurring

For example:


\begin{gathered} (1)/(2)\text{ terminating} \\ (1)/(3)\text{ recurring} \end{gathered}

For the recurring ones,we place a horizontal line on the recurring part to denote the recurrence

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