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.
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.
0.83333 repeating
Because terminating or repeating decimals can be written as the quotient of two integers a/b, where b is not equal to zero.
Not sure what you mean by a mixed decimal, but 5/7 is a repeating decimal: 0.71485 The last five digit repeat. A mixed decimal is when you have both a fraction and a decimal in your answer. Like, 5/7 is equal to ( 0.71 3/7). Fractions equivalent to repeating decimals may be written as mixed decimals.
3/8 = 0.375 is a terminating decimal. If you must have it in the form of a repeating decimal it is either 0.375000... or 0.374999... The second may look an unlikely answer but I can assure you that, mathematically, the two decimals are equal.
0.6666 repeating
.166666666666666666666666 repeating or .167
The decimal 3.6999... repeating is equal.
It is 129.999... (repeating).
0.1666 repeating
0.1666 repeating
No, the sum of a repeating decimal and a terminating decimal is never a terminating decimal.
The only way to make equivalent decimals to decimals is by adding trailing zeroes to the end of the number. Therefore, 0.105 is equal to 0.1050, or 0.10500, and so on.
4/14 is equal to the irrational repeating decimal, 0.285714... it keeps repeating after that.