Write the condition to be satisfied by q so that a rational number

Question:

Write the condition to be satisfied by $q$ so that a rational number $\frac{p}{q}$ has a terminating decimal expansion.

Solution:

We need to find the condition to be satisfied by $q$ so that a rational number $\frac{p}{q}$ has a non-terminating decimal expression.

For the terminating decimal expression, we should not have a multiple of 10 in the denominator.

Hence, the prime factorization of $q$ must not be of the form $2^{m} \times 5^{n}$, where $m$ and $n$ are non-negative integers.

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