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Without actually performing the long division, find if will have terminating or non-terminating repeating decimal expansion. Give reasons for your answer.
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Answer
GCD of numerator and denominator is 21. Reducing the number to its lowest form:
Prime factorization of denominator 500:
500 = 2 x 2 x 5 x 5 x 5 = 22 x 53
Denominator is of the form 2m x 5n, where m, n are non-negative integers.
∴ The given number has a terminating decimal expansion.
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