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Question
State whether the following rational number will have a terminating decimal expansion or a non-terminating repeating decimal expansion:
`23/(2^3xx5^2)`
Solution
`23/(2^3xx5^2)`
Since the denominator has only 2 and 5 as its factors it is terminating decimal.
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