SOLUTION: Is .6 repeating a natural, whole, integers, rational, irrational

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Question 992061: Is .6 repeating a natural, whole, integers, rational, irrational
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It is neither natural, whole, or integer, and irrational numbers do not repeat. Any repeating decimal can be expressed as the quotient of two integers.

Let then

  10a  =  6.666...
-   a  =  0.666...
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   9a  =  6



John

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