Express 8/11 as a repeating decimal, write where i should place the bar above to indicate it goes on forever.

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To express 8/11 as a repeating decimal, we divide 8 by 11:

0.727272...

To indicate that the decimal goes on forever, we place a bar above the two repeating digits, which in this case is 72. Therefore, we write the repeating decimal as:

0.72¯¯¯¯¯¯