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?
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The occurrences of 4367 should be changed to 3647 in 3 places.
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 = 3 6 4 7 + 9 9 9 0 = 1 3 6 3 7
Good clean way to deal with converting (eventually) repeating decimals into fractions.
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+ 1 0 0 0 6 5 + 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 6 5 .....
=0.3+65[ 1 0 0 0 1 + 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 ..... ]
=Thus one part of the above equation is in G.P. where r= 1 0 0 0 1 , thus
S ∞ = 1 − r a
= 1 0 0 0 1 / 1- 1 0 0 0 1
= 9 9 9 1
continuing from where we left...
= 1 0 3 + 9 9 9 6 5
= 9 9 9 0 3 6 4 7
therefore A+B=13637
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