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Question
State whether the following rational number will have a terminating decimal expansion or a non-terminating repeating decimal expansion:
`13/3125`
Solution
`13/3125 = 13/5^5`
Since the denominator has only 5 as its factor, it is a terminating decimal expansion.
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