SOLUTION: i stands for iota which equals -1 is it real and rational, real and irrational, or complex? I'm thinking it is real and rational.-1 is on the number line. I'm thrown off by t

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Question 102959: i stands for iota which equals -1
is it real and rational, real and irrational, or complex?
I'm thinking it is real and rational.-1 is on the number line. I'm thrown off by the word real. Is i classified as a real number, even though it is imaginary?

Answer by MathLover1(20850)   (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!

In mathematics, a complex number is a number of the form

where and are numbers, and is the unit, with the property .
The is called the real part of the complex number, and the is the part.
Real numbers be considered to be complex numbers with an imaginary part of ; that is, the real number is equivalent to the complex number .
In mathematics, the may be described informally as numbers that can be given by an infinite decimal representation, such as 2.4871773339….
The real numbers both numbers (such as and −), and numbers (such as and the , and can be represented as points along an infinitely long number line.

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