Glencoe Math: Course 2, Volume 1
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1. Terminating and Repeating Decimals
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Exercise 13 Page 267

The decimal number 0.2 can be read as 2 tenths.

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We want to write the given decimal number as a fraction in simplest form. - 0.2 To make this easier, we can keep in mind that this number can be read as 2 tenths. This means that we can write it as a fraction with a numerator of 2 and with a denominator of 10. Then, we can simplify the fraction by dividing both the numerator and denominator by 2.
- 2/10
- 2/2/10/2
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