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Sunday, December 8, 2013

SP #6 - Unit K Concept 10: Writing Repeating Decimals as Rational Numbers

Be sure to add the whole number to your fraction at the end. Convert the whole number to an improper fraction with the same denominator as your other fraction and add! It is wise to keep most of your numbers as fractions. As you can see, I changed .144 to 144/1000. Remember when you are multiplying your denominator by its reciprocal, also multiply that reciprocal by the numerator! What you do to the bottom, you must do to the top! Finally, it is easy to make mistakes by simply writing the decimals that you put into the series. Just make sure you put the correct amount of zeroes everytime and you should be fine.