Zusammenfassung der Ressource
Recurring decimals to fractions
- What is 0.454545454545454545(recurring) as a fraction?
- 1. Write it as x = 0.4545454545...
- 2. Multiply the decimal by a power of 10 that leaves the bit after the decimal the same
- (x100) 100x = 45.454545...
- 3. Subtract the original number from the new one
- 99x = 45.
- Divide by the number of x
- 45 ÷ 99 = 45/99
- Cancel the fraction
- 5/11
- 0.238383838...
- x = 0.238383838
- You can't get it so that the
number is the same on both
sides because of the 2.
- 1000x = 238.3838383838
- 10x = 2.38383838
- 990x = 236
- x = 236/990
- 118/445