During your decimal work, you may have come across fractions with decimals that "go on forever". Others do not (or do not seem to). Why do some fractions behave "finitely" in terms of decimal representation and others "infinitely?" It is a great question we encourage you to ponder. Hint: it may have something to do with whether the fraction is equivalent to one whose denominator is a power of 10.

Thankfully, we can always convert an expression with digits to the right of the decimal that "go on forever with a repeating string of digits" into a fraction. There is a fun way to accomplish the conversion. We call these decimal expressions repeating decimals. Let's watch a video and review a quick example before we point you to a video that outlines this approach with lots of examples.

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