How do you express 5/6 as a decimal?

2 Answers
Dec 27, 2016

5/6= 0.833bar356=0.833¯3

Explanation:

color(white)("X")underline(color(white)("0").color(white)("0")8color(white)("0")3color(white)("0")3color(white)("0")bar(3) ...)
6 ) 5 .color(white)("0")0color(white)("0")0color(white)("0")0color(white)("0")0color(white)("0")...
color(white)("X")underline(4 .color(white)("0")8)
color(white)("XXX")2color(white)("0")0
color(white)("XXX")underline(1color(white)("0")8)
color(white)("XXXxX")2color(white)("0")0
color(white)("XXXxX")underline (1color(white)("0")8)
color(white)("XXXXXX")2 ...

The "bar" over the 3 indicates that this digit is repeated infinitely.

Dec 27, 2016

I got: 0.8bar3

Explanation:

We can try performing the division:
5:6=
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where we took a zero to get 50 and be able to perform the division introducing the decimal 0.