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Postby angelbaby on Sun Apr 19, 2009 11:10 pm

What whole number of minutes (less than 60) could be expressed as terminating decimal parts of an hour?
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Postby stapel_eliz on Sun Apr 19, 2009 11:41 pm

angelbaby wrote:What whole number of minutes (less than 60) could be expressed as terminating decimal parts of an hour?

Try some divisions. See what you get! :wink:

One minute is 1/60. What is the decimal form?

Two minutes is 2/60 = 1/30. What is the decimal form?

Three minutes is 3/60 = 1/20. What is the decimal form?

And so forth.

Have fun! :D
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