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Question
State whether the following rational number will have a terminating decimal expansion or a non-terminating repeating decimal expansion:
`64/455`
Solution
`64/455 = (64)/(5xx7xx13)`
Since the denominator has factors other than 2 and 5 it is a non terminating decimal.
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