How do you convert 0.39 (39 repeating) to a fraction?
1 Answer
Feb 22, 2016
We first assign this value as x
Then we can multiply the value so that the decimal moves to the right a couple of spaces
and
Let's see, how can we get rid of all of those 9's now?
Ah! Subtraction!!
We can subtract the
Wow that was so easy!
Just remember: Multiply a repeating decimal by a multiple of ten so that the repeating part of the decimal can cancel out when we subtract the two numbers.
