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Saturday, December 7, 2013

SP 6: Unit K Concept 10: Writing a Repeating Decimal as a Rational Number Using Geometric Series


The parts of this problem that a student needs to pay attention to is plugging in the correct numbers into the formula. The student must first correctly identify the rate by taking any term in the series and dividing it by the one that precedes. In addition, it is easier to leave the numbers as fractions, since students are not allowed to use their calculators, and solve the problem in this way.