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Vanessa Howe, howesvc@aol.com
Monday, November 06, 2006
"What is the answer to November 6ths starter of the day?"
Sarah, Newcastle
Monday, November 06, 2006
"Its 108/99. I used it today before i did "changing recurring decimals into fractions Y10 MOD 3."
David Gee, Notting Hill Prep School
Friday, November 06, 2009
"The numbers are 12 divided by 11 (108/99 cancelled down). The clue is in the recurring decimal - a two digit cycle 090909... for 1/11 181818... for 2/11 272727... for 3/11 . Elevenths as decimals have two digit cycles of the multiples of nine."
David Gee, Notting Hill
Monday, November 09, 2009
"Sorry, typo in cut and paste! 1/11 is 0.090909 (1x9) 2/11 0.181818 (2x9)
3/11 0.272727 (3x9)."
Jacob, Swavesey Village Collge
Tuesday, November 10, 2009
"Jacob Savage in year 7 from Swavesey Village college also noticed that these two numbers worked.....
9818181819 / 9000000000."

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