Glencoe Math: Course 2, Volume 1
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1. Terminating and Repeating Decimals
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Exercise 14 Page 267

The decimal number 0.55 can be read as 5 hundredths.

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Practice makes perfect
We want to write the given decimal number as a fraction in simplest form. - 0.55 To make this easier, we can keep in mind that this number can be read as 55 hundredths. This means that we can write it as a fraction with a numerator of 55 and with a denominator of 100. Then, we can simplify the fraction by dividing both the numerator and denominator by 5.
- 55/100
- 55/5/100/5
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