SOLUTION: how do you write the expression 1/27 without using a fraction bar?

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Question 368176: how do you write the expression 1/27 without using a fraction bar?
Found 2 solutions by stanbon, Edwin McCravy:
Answer by stanbon(75887) About Me  (Show Source):
You can put this solution on YOUR website!
how do you write the expression 1/27 without using a fraction bar?
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1/27 = 0.037037037....
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Cheers,
Stan H.

Answer by Edwin McCravy(20056) About Me  (Show Source):
You can put this solution on YOUR website!
  1                          ___ 
---- = .03703703703703··· = .037
 27

There is another way

  1     1   
---- = --- = 3-3
 27    3³

If you're studying negative exponents, that's what your
teacher is looking for.

Edwin