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Lookingfor700GMAT: Senior | Next Rank: 100 Posts; Posts: 39; Joined: Mon Feb 08, 2010 12:41 pm

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by Lookingfor700GMAT » Sun Mar 07, 2010 9:41 am

I just went through the following question in the OG (12th ed). Please let me know how I would know that 6/11 is 0.54545454 in decimal form without a calculator. Is there a trick to know this? I know that is is roughly 54% but I wouldn't have known that the two digits of 5 and 4 are reoccuring.

What is the 25th digit to the right of the decimal point in the decimal form of 6/11?

3
4
5
6
7

The answer is 5.

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by papgust » Sun Mar 07, 2010 5:43 pm

You need to perform long division to determine the recurring digits while dividing. Long division is a basic traditional method of dividing.

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by Scott@TargetTestPrep » Tue Mar 27, 2018 10:39 am

Lookingfor700GMAT wrote:I just went through the following question in the OG (12th ed). Please let me know how I would know that 6/11 is 0.54545454 in decimal form without a calculator. Is there a trick to know this? I know that is is roughly 54% but I wouldn't have known that the two digits of 5 and 4 are reoccuring.

What is the 25th digit to the right of the decimal point in the decimal form of 6/11?

3
4
5
6
7

6/11 = 0.545454...

We see that all the odd-numbered digits (1st, 3rd, etc.) to the right of the decimal point are 5 and all the even-numbered digits (2nd, 4th, etc.) to the right of the decimal point are 4. Since 25 is odd, the 25th digit to the right of the decimal point is 5.

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