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If the decimal number can be expressed as a fraction (with one whole number over another), then it is a rational decimal number. So 7/5 is a rational number, and remains as such even if expressed in decimal form (of 1.4).
a number with a decimal point is a a fraction, a part of the whole goes behind the decimal. where as one with out a decimal point is just a whole number.
4.1 in fraction form is 41/100. First, move the decimal spot one over to the right. Then, place the number over 100. You then have a fraction of the decimal.
1.7383 is a [decimal] fraction: it is NOT a whole number and there is no sensible way to express it as a whole number.
A proper fraction, that is, one with no whole number part, for which the denominator of the fraction is an integral power of ten, may be converted to a decimal of the form: decimal point followed by one fewer zeros than the power of ten in the denominator, followed by the numerator of the fraction.