The fraction 22/7 has a value of 3.142857, so it has the same first three digits as pi. Both 3.14 and 22/7 are approximations of pi. In fact, 22/7 is close to pi than 3.14 is. Pi is irrational. That is, the decimal expansion never ends and never repeats, so any number of decimal places we wrote out is an approximation. The approximation 3.14 is about 1/2 percent off from the true value, and the fairly well know 3.141559 is within 0.000084 percent.

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3 years ago

If the first chapter of a certain book is 16 pages long and makes up 4% of the book, how many pages does the entire book have?

galina1969 [7]

If 16 pages equal to 4%, how many pages will equal to 100%?

4/100 = 16/x
4x=1600
X= 400

So total pages should be 400.

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2 years ago