At a pet store, one fifth of the animals are cats and three-fourth are fish. There are 40 animals at the pet store. How many are
mot cats or fish? Show your thinking
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There are a couple of different approaches you can use for this. Here's one.
1. Determine how many digits repeat. (There is just one repeating digit.)
2. Call your number x. Multiply x by 10 to the power of the number of digits found in step 1.
3. Subtract the original number, then solve for x.
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If you recognize that 0.333... (repeating) is 1/3, then you know that 0.0333... (repeating) is 1/10×1/3 = 1/30. Add that to 0.8 = 4/5 and you get
... 4/5 + 1/30 = 24/30 + 1/30 = 25/30 = 5/6