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Worksheet - Converting Recurring Decimals to Fractions

How to use this worksheet:

● Start with Section A if you want to practice the key skills for the topic
● Start with Section B (skip Section A) if you are confident and want to do more challenging
questions
● Attempt Section C only after you have finished all questions in Section B

Section A -

1. Convert the following recurring decimals into fractions in their simplest form:
(Note: Write down all of your working for each question)

เ ↳
1 4 ⑨
-
>

3C = 1.5
<C = 0.6 <C = 0.7
15.55
1080:67.67. -
1007:75.55 - 1.55 - 10072-76.76

932: 14 1 ↳ 9 PC): 69
&9)):76
14 3):69 26
(2 = 3): -

99
&
⑨

<C 6. CC = - 1.5
3C : - 1.8

1003:606.0606... 100C:- 153.5353...

1000 = - 18.88
93C: - 152
992:600
as) : - 17
<C:10208
CC = >152
19 9
CC : -
#3
-

Section B -

2. Calculate each of the following, giving your answer as an exact fraction in its simplest form:
19 2)
- ->

18 2

>C:0. <C: 0.63

1.5+
#1
5.5x 1

10002:63.6363
-

10000:17.171
&

9932: 63 5 17
9902:17
=

Sq
&

32 =
18 -

:
<C:
:
จ่
 -> &

① & 1)

><= 0.3 10-0.5 &

④ ①
3C: 0.2 >C = 0.4
1039:3.33
10832:57.59 ② 1032:4.44
10000: 12.7272
932: 3
/
4
9930:59 922:
·

<C: : /3 9932 : 12 วC : 4
1 1
⑨

CC : 12
-
=I
99 2

#
#

④
1.3.1.3
①
= 1.3
CC = 0.1
④
·
as "
2 4
32 : 1. 103C: 7.711
-
12 2
-4

#
=
x
1032: 13.33
-
&

↑ 90C: 1
9 JC = 12
12 : =

CC : 12
=
#

Section C -

3. Adapt the method we have used to write decimals with one or two recurring digits as
fractions to prove that the following statement is true:

Hint: What did we change in the method when we went from one to two recurring digits?
CC = 0.543
100003:543.543543

999): 543

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4. If we have a decimal with n recurring digits, , what number should we multiply
by so that the digits on the right of the decimal point ‘line up’ again?

number +10

dns: 10