Convert the following rational number into decimal form and state the kind of its decimal expansion: $\frac{71}{125}$

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(N/A) To convert $\frac{71}{125}$ into decimal form,we can divide the numerator by the denominator or multiply both by $8$ to get a power of $10$ in the denominator.
$\frac{71 \times 8}{125 \times 8} = \frac{568}{1000} = 0.568$
Since the remainder becomes $0$ after a finite number of steps,the decimal expansion is a Terminating decimal expansion.

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