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Does 5047/3500 have a terminating or non terminating decimal. If yes after how manyplaces will it terminate?​

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ANSWER:

Yes, It has a terminating decimal because A rational number will have terminating decimal EXPANSION, if the factors of the denominator is in the form of <klux>2</klux>^{n}*5^{m}. The decimal expansion of 5047/3500 will TERMINATE after 3 places.

Step-by-step explanation:

5047/3500, this can be DIVIDED by 7 as there is 7 as a factor in both numbers.

721/500, now the denominator contains the factors, 4 and 125, which can be written in the form 2^{2}*5^{3}.

Now we should make the powers of 2^{2}*5^{3}equal.

To make that we need to multiply 2 to 2^{2}*5^{3} and to the numerator also.

Then it will become 2^{3}*5^{3} and the numerator will become 721*2= 1442

Now, 1442 /(2*5)^{3}  =1442/ 10^{3}, now the decimal expansion will terminate after 3 places, because the 10 is raised to the power of 3.



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