Question

Without doing any actual division, find which of the following rational numbers have terminating decimal representation : `43/50`

Answer 1

Given number is `46/50`

Since 50 = 2 x 5 x 5 = 2¹ x 5²
I.e. 50 can be expressed as 2^m x 5ⁿ

∴ `43/50` is convertible into the terminating decimal.