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State whether 10.064 is rational or irrational. If rational express in the p/q form.

10.064 has a terminating sequence of digits after the decimal place. Hence it is a rational number.

Since there are 3 decimal places after the decimal,


multiplying and dividing by 1000,





Hence 10.064 is a rational number and its form is .


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