Terminating and Repeating Decimals

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Terminating and Repeating Decimals

• SWBAT express fractions and mixed numbers as
  terminating or repeating decimals

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Definitions

• How would you change 1/3 to a decimal? Show your
  work.
• Repeating decimal
• The same digits keep repeating in the quotient
• Written with a bar over the repeating number(s)
• Terminating decimal
• A decimal with a definite end

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Examples

• 1/8
• 5/11
• 2/3
• ¾
• 2/9
• 7/16

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Try These

• 5/12
• 0.416
• Repeating
• 11/18
• 0.61
• Repeating
• 1/16
• 0.0625
• Terminating