Holly says 4.131131113... is a rational number. Which of the following best describes whether Holly is correct and why??

A rational number’s decimal expansion either terminates or eventually repeats a fixed block of digits. Here the digits appear to follow a pattern, with more 1s before each 3, but that pattern does not repeat the same block. So Holly is incorrect: the decimal part follows a pattern but does not actually repeat.

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