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Question
State whether the following rational number will have a terminating decimal expansion or a non-terminating repeating decimal expansion:
`35/50`
Solution
`35/50 = 7/10`
= `7/(2xx5)`
Since the denominator has only 2 and 5 as its factors it is a terminating decimal.
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