SOLUTION: Find an irrational number (a nonrepeating, nonterminating decimal) between each pair of rational numbers. a. 2.5, 3.5 b. 0.222 . . . , 0.555 . . . Please help

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Question 374621: Find an irrational number (a nonrepeating, nonterminating decimal) between each pair of rational numbers.
a. 2.5, 3.5
b. 0.222 . . . , 0.555 . . .
Please help

Answer by jim_thompson5910(35256)   (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
Hint: One way to find an irrational number between the numbers 'a' and 'b' is to find the geometric mean of the two. So the number is in between the numbers 'a' and 'b'
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