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Course: 8th grade > Unit 1
Lesson 1: Repeating decimals- Converting a fraction to a repeating decimal
- Writing fractions as repeating decimals
- Converting repeating decimals to fractions (part 1 of 2)
- Converting repeating decimals to fractions
- Converting repeating decimals to fractions (part 2 of 2)
- Converting multi-digit repeating decimals to fractions
- Writing repeating decimals as fractions review
- Writing fractions as repeating decimals review
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Writing fractions as repeating decimals review
Review converting fractions to repeating decimals, and then try some practice problems.
Writing fractions as decimals
To convert a fraction to a decimal, we divide the numerator by the denominator.
Example:
Writing fractions as repeating decimals
However, it does not always work out that nicely.
Sometimes, when we divide the numerator by the denominator, it becomes clear that the digits will keep repeating. In this case, we write the answer as a repeating decimal.
In our answer, we write a bar over the repeating digits to show that they repeat.
Example:
No matter how long we divide, the will continue to repeat in our quotient.
Want to learn more about writing fractions as repeating decimals? Check out this video.
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- why does math have to be hard like life is hard already(99 votes)
- "Want to try more problems like this?" Absolutively not(47 votes)
- bro is it just me or when a teacher teaches us something the moment we do homework or take a test the stuff in the homework or test is nothing to do with what we learned😡(3 votes)
- UH I am still a bit confused like how would we solve 0.36 but only the 6 is repeating(11 votes)
- Let x = 0.3666....
Only 1 digit (the 6) repeats, so multiply both sides by 10^1=10 to get
10x = 3.6666...
Subtract the first equation from the second equation to cancel out repeating parts, to get
9x = 3.3
Divide both sides by 9 to get
x = 3.3/9 .
We can simplify 3.3/9 by first multiplying top and bottom by 10 (getting rid of the decimal) to get 33/90, then dividing top and bottom by 3 to get 11/30.
The final answer is 11/30.
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- I took an inference for all the questions depending on if the numerator is greater than or less than the denominator. For example, let's say we have 36/50. I know 25/50 is 50% or 1/2 so, 36/50 has to be close to 25/50. And if one of the answer options is close to the inference to what you have held in your mind, then that answer is most likely to be correct.(8 votes)