Engineering Board Exam Reviewer · Sequences and Series · medium
Express the repeating decimal 0.363636 as a common fraction in lowest terms.
- 4/11
- 3/11
- 9/25
- 5/11
Answer
A. 4/11
Solution
Let N=0. 36. Then 100N=36. 36, so 99N=36 N=36/99=4/11.
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