Question

almost 9/11 of total electricity supplied to a town is used in farms and houses.Use long division to determine the decimal equivalent to 9/11. Use words to explain if the decimal terminates or repeats.

Answer 1

Let's start.



\[9\div11=0.81818181818\]

Round that to the nearest thousandth


(0.81818181818) after rounded=(0.8182)


This decimal repeats due to the fact that the decimal is"A repeating decimal, also called a recurring decimal, is a number whose decimal representation eventually becomes periodic (i.e., the same sequence of digits repeats indefinitely)-
https://mathworld.wolfram.com/RepeatingDecimal.html