17. Scott cuts his birthday cake into nine equal pieces and eats two of them.
A. Use long division to compute in decimal form how much of the cake he ate. (Ensure your answer includes the first four digits of the decimal.)

B. Does the decimal appear to repeat indefinitely or end in zeros?

A. 0.2222

B. Repeat indefinitely

Step-by-step explanation:

A. We have that Scott has 9 pieces in total and he eats 2 of them. That means he eats 2 out of the 9, so we have 2 ÷ 9. (see attachment)

The decimal form is: 0.2222.

B. Clearly, we can see that throughout the long division, we keep getting 20 - 18 = 2, which makes another 20 and so on. So, this will repeat indefinitely.

area of part 1:

a1=base*height/2=(8+2)*(8-2-2-1)/2=10*3/2=15 ft^2

area of part 2:

a2=length*width=(8+2)*1=10 ft2

area of part 3:

a3=length*width=8*2=16 ft2

total shaded area : a1+a2+a3=41 ft2

total area of the reactangle : a=16*8=128 ft2

total area of the nonshaded region : 128-41=87 ft2