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Write the condition to be satisfied by q so that a rational number has a terminating 9 decimal expansion.

Let x = p/q be a rational number, such that the prime factorization of q is of the form 2n 5m, where n, m are non-negative integers. Then x has a decimal expansion which terminates.


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