7.3333
Since this is a decimal you know it is less than 1. You take the decimal (.22222) and place it over 1. So you get .22222/1 shift the decimal over 5 place on both the numerator and denominator to look like this: 22222/100000 then all you have to do is start reducing. 11111/50000 after checking all the prime numbers to 23, it would appear to be the lowest fraction we can get.
it is not. 2/5 = .4 4/18 = 2/9 = .22222 reapeating forever
With repetition, the smallest is 22222 and the largest is 88888 Without repetition, the smallest is 23458 and the largest is 85432
the options i can see are: 1111111111 111111112 11111122 1111222 112222 22222 there are 6 combinations but i will need to reformulate to work out how many permutations of these 6 combinations there are
246908642
454545/1
8000 + 22222 = 30222
454545
22222
7.3333
The answer is 22222
22222
22222
45454545/1 (454545 over 1)
22,222,222 + 22,222 = 22,244,444
11111+22222