Which of the following fractions has the decimal expansion completed?

Which of the following fractions has the decimal expansion completed?

a) 1/(1024^1024)
b) 1/(2222^2222)
c) 1/(5555^5555)
d) 1/(1500^1500)

I know there should be power of 10 in the denominator, but I don't how to check if some of this fractions has it.

2 Answers
Oct 9, 2017

a) 1/(1024^1024)

Explanation:

Note that 1024 = 2^10

So:

1/(1024^1024) = 1/((2^10)^1024) = 1/(2^10240) = 5^10240/10^10240

which has a terminating decimal expansion with 10240 decimal places.

All of the other options have factors other than 2 or 5 in the denominator.

Oct 9, 2017

The correct answer is A. See explanation.

Explanation:

A fraction can be converted to a decimal without a period if and only if the prime factorization of the denominator consists only of 2 and 5.

In B we have: 2222=2*11*101 all raised to 2222,

In C we have 5555=5*11*101 raised to 5555

In D we have 1500=2^2*3*5^5 raised to 1500

In A the denominator can be written as (2^10)^1024, so it is only the power of 2