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My cousin started playing with calculator... but he incidentally typed a number "A" and divided it by a number "B" and surprisingly the result came as 0.365065065065...

What is the smallest value of A and B (both are positive integers) which satisfies the above condition. If you got A and B, what is A+B?

Hints and Directions:

  1. Calculators are not going to help.
  2. Suppose you got 35 and 40, deduce them to 7 and 8 and then add them and give the answer as 15.


The answer is 13637.

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4 solutions

Rama Devi
May 27, 2015

The occurrences of 4367 should be changed to 3647 in 3 places.

Bob Kadylo - 5 years, 5 months ago
Bob Kadylo
Dec 19, 2015

Let x = .3650650650... ; which makes 10000x = 3650.650650650... and 10x=3.650650650... The digits behind the decimal point are identical repeating tails and 10000x - 10x = 3650 - 3 (repeating tails cancel) Simplifying the equation gives us 9990x=3647 and x has a numerator of 3647 and a denominator of 9990. The GCD of A and B is 1. Finally; A + B = 3647 + 9990 = 13637 A + B = 3647 + 9990 = \boxed{13637}

Moderator note:

Good clean way to deal with converting (eventually) repeating decimals into fractions.

John Facistol
Nov 15, 2014

0.30650650650650650... = 0.3 + 0.0650650650650... Notice that 0.3 is not part of the repeating pattern of the decimal number. Set aside it and just focused first on 0.0650650650... part Let x be the number you want to convert to fraction. (1) x = 0.065065065065... Multiply both sides of equation (1) by 10 (2) 1000x = 65.065065065065... Combine two equations to form system-of-linear-equation-like expression: (2) 1000x = 65.065065065065... (1) x = 0.065065065065... Subtract 999x = 65 x = 65/999

Therefore 0.065065065065... = 65/999 This time, we will now add the fraction form of 0.3 which is 3/10 and add it to 65/999 to obtain same value. 0.3 + 0.065065065065... = 3/10 + 65/999 = 3647/999 Therefore 0.365065065065... = 3647/9990

As the question asked A+B = 3647 + 9990 = 13637

Observe the result...

0.365065065065...

we see that 065 repeats repeatedly.

0.365065065065... can be written as:

0.3+0.065+0.000065+0.000000065.......

=0.3+ 65 1000 \frac{65}{1000} + 65 1000000 \frac{65}{1000000} .....

=0.3+65[ 1 1000 \frac{1}{1000} + 1 1000000 \frac{1}{1000000} ..... ]

=Thus one part of the above equation is in G.P. where r= 1 1000 \frac{1}{1000} , thus

S S_{∞} = a 1 r \frac{a}{1-r}

= 1 1000 \frac{1}{1000} / 1- 1 1000 \frac{1}{1000}

= 1 999 \frac{1}{999}

continuing from where we left...

= 3 10 \frac{3}{10} + 65 999 \frac{65}{999}

= 3647 9990 \frac{3647}{9990}

therefore A+B=13637

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