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Question
CBSEENMA10006128

Without actually performing the long division, state whether the following rational numbers will have a terminating decimal expansion or a non-terminating repeating decimal expansion:

(ii)  17 over 8

Solution

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has a terminating decimal expansion
[By NCERT Theorem 1.6]