Glencoe Math: Course 2, Volume 1
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1. Terminating and Repeating Decimals
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Exercise 33 Page 269

Recall that - 3.2 can be read as - 32 tenths.

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Practice makes perfect
We want to write the given mixed number as an improper fraction. - 3.2 To make this easier, we can keep in mind that this number can be read as - 32 tenths. Therefore, we can write it as a fraction with a numerator of - 32 and with a denominator of 10. Then we can simplify the fraction by dividing both the numerator and denominator by 2.
- 32/10
- 32/10
- 32/2/10/2
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