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Q: How do you convert a rational number to a terminating decimal?
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What is non terminatin repeating decimal?

A terminating decimal is a rational number. A non-terminating, repeating decimal is a rational number. A non-terminating, non-repeating decimal is an irrational number.


Is 8.2 a rational number?

Yes. Any terminating decimal is a rational number. Any repeating decimal also.


Is 6.121231234. a rational number?

Yes, it is. Any terminating or a non-terminating recurring decimal is a rational number. In this case, the decimal is terminated. And so, this number is a rational number.


Why decimal is considered as rational number?

A decimal need not be a rational. A non-terminating, non recurring decimal is an irrational number. Only a terminating decimal or a recurring decimal is rational and that is because such a number can be expressed as a ratio of two integers.


Is 0.454545... an irrational number?

No. It is a rational number. Any repeating decimal or terminating decimal is rational.


What is Rational number as a decimal?

It is either a terminating decimal or a repeating decimal.


Is decimal a rational number?

It depends. A terminating decimal is a rational number. A decimal which, after a finite number of places, becomes a repeating (or recurrent) decimal is also a rational number. A decimal that is not terminating, nor [eventually] settles into a recurring pattern is not a rational number. Note that the decimal need not become recurring immediately.


Is 3.456 rational number?

Any number with terminating decimals (a finite number of decimal digits) is rational. (If it is non-terminating, but periodic, it is also rational.)


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It is a rational number because it is a terminating decimal number


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That is the definition of a rational number.


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Is 0.1 repeadted rational?

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