certainly not
Not necessarily.
1/3 = 0.333...
1/6 = 0.166...
1/3 + 1/6 = 1/2 = 0.5, a terminating decimal.
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Because terminating or repeating decimals can be written as the quotient of two integers a/b, where b is not equal to zero.
0.1666 repeating
No, the sum of a repeating decimal and a terminating decimal is never a terminating decimal.
0.83333 repeating
Not as written. Eight-hundred eighty-eight thousandths is eight thousandths greater than eighty-eight hundredths. The confusion comes from repeating decimals. 0.8 repeating is equal to 0.88 repeating is equal to 0.888 repeating.