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Chapter 5: Q19. (page 224)

Describe and correct the error in writing the repeating decimal 5.07878… using a bar.

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The correct repeating decimal will be 5.07878...=5.078¯

Step by step solution

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Step 1. Given information

Consider the number 5.07878...=5.078¯

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Step 2. Calculation 

In a repeating decimal the bar is placed over the number which repeated, but in 5.07878...=5.078¯the bar is placed over digit 078which is wrong because the digit 78 only repeated so bar will placed only on digit 78.

Hence,

The correct repeating decimal will be 5.07878...=5.078¯

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