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BITS AND PIECES III
INVESTIGATION 3.4
REPRESENTING FRACTIONS AS DECIMALS
What are terminating decimals?
Terminating decimals are numbers that do not
repeat when divided.
When you take 1 and divide it by 2, you
get 0.5. When you take 1 and divide it
by 4, you get 0.25.
What are repeating decimals?
What are repeating decimals?
Repeating decimals are numbers that
repeat. When doing 1 divided by 3 the
number never ends and continuously
repeats 3 after 0. When doing 1 divided
by 11 the number never ends and
continuously repeats 09 after 0.
Why do fractions like 1/2 and 1/4 also
have terminating decimal forms?
Why do fractions like 1/2 and 1/4 also
have terminating decimal forms?
Because they can make equivalent
fractions with denominators of 10, 100,
1000, etc. 1/2 = 5/10; 1/4 = 25/100
1.) 2/5 = 4/10 = 0.4
2.) 3/8 = 375/1000 = 0.375
3.) 5/6 is Repeating = 0.83333......
4.) 35/10 = 3.5
5.)8/99 is Repeating = 0.8888......
1.) 2/5 = 4/10 = 0.4
2.) 3/8 = 375/1000 = 0.375
3.) 5/6 is Repeating = 0.83333......
4.) 35/10 = 3.5
5.)8/99 is Repeating = 0.8888......
1/4, 2/8, 4/16, 5/20, 6/24, 25/100 = 0.25
The decimal matches the fraction that has 10,
100, 1000, etc. as a denominator 25/100 = 0.25
35/100
21456/10000
89050/100000= 8905/10000
214560/100000= 21456/10000
1/3, 1/6, 1/9, 5/15
1. To tell whether a fraction has a terminating or repeating
decimal representation, examine it in its simplest form.
Fractions with terminating decimals only have 2’s and/or 5’s
in the prime factorization of the denominator. Fractions with
repeating decimals will have factors other than 2 or 5 in the
denominator.
2. There is no repeating decimal with 10, 100, 1000, etc. as
its denominator.