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produce both terminating and recurring decimais.
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Investigate
1. Choose different unit fractions to identity which ones produce terminating or recurring desimais.
(Hint: Create a table with the headings shown below to help you see a cettem)
Prime factors of
Unit Fraction
Decimal equivalent
Terminating or
the denominator
recurring?
Discuss
2 Use your results to identity a pattern for predicting whether a fraction will produce a terminating
recurring decimal then summarise your findings.