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Rationalizing Decimals (Posted on 2007-09-26) Difficulty: 3 of 5
Consider the rational number which in decimal form is .12345345345345...
It begins with two non-repeating digits followed by a block of 3 digits which repeats.

For the generalized repeating decimal .[a][b][b][b][b]...
Where [a] has n digits and [b] has m digits.

Find a general way to transform it into a rational number of the form p/r.

See The Solution Submitted by Jer    
Rating: 3.0000 (2 votes)

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A little mistake | Comment 7 of 8 |
(In reply to Answer by K Sengupta)

I belive that the corect answer is :

p/r = (S*[a] + [b])/(10^n*S), where S = (10^m -1) and is the same with other opinion from here!


  Posted by Chesca Ciprian on 2007-09-27 15:50:43
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