Monday, January 5, 2015

R-9 Terminating and Repeating Decimal

What is a terminating and repeating decimal?

Terminating: 
1.5, 1.75, 1.4

Repeating: 
Decimal that just keeps repeating the same #'s.
ex. 1.33 or 1.333333
A set of #'s that repeats
ex. .xyxyxyxy



What happens when decimals keep changing?


Fraction
Equivalent Fraction with 10, 100, 1000, etc in the denominator
Decimal
Identify as Terminating or Repeating
2/5
4/10.4Terminating
3/8
375/1000.375Term
5/6
833/1000 (Class still not sure).8333333Repeating
35/10
35/103.5Terminating
8/99
80.80/1000.080808Repeating








R-10 Make 5-7 observations about this chart