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Decimal Expansion of Rational and Irrational Numbers

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The decimal representation of an irrational number is

(a) always terminating

(b) either terminating or repeating

(c) either terminating or nonrepeating

(d) neither terminating nor repeating

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As per the definition of irrational number

(d) neither terminating nor repeating

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