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Craig, a student:

Can you help me to convert:
0.444444 (repeating decimal - base 10) to base 9?

Hi Craig,

Consider the following pattern

0.111111....=1/9

0.222222....=2/9

0.333333....=3/9=1/3

So what would 0.44444... be?

Hope this helps,

Janice

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