SOLUTION: I'm a little confused in identifying the difference between rational and irrational numbers?

Question 938212: I'm a little confused in identifying the difference between rational and irrational numbers?
Answer by MathLover1(20850) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!

Rational number and irrational number are both real numbers.
Both are values which represent a certain quantity along a particular continuum.
Math and numbers is not everyone�s cup of tea, thus sometimes some people find it confusing to differentiate which one is rational and which one is an irrational number.
In brief:
� All integers are rational numbers; but it does not necessarily mean that all non-integers are irrational.
� Rational numbers can be expressed as both fraction and decimal
� irrational numbers can be expressed as decimal but not in fraction form.
here is little bit more about them:
Rational Number
A rational number is actually any number which can be expressed as a fraction of two integers x/y where y or the denominator is not zero. Because the denominator can be equal to one, we can conclude that all integers is a rational number. The word rational was originally derived from the word ratio because again they can be expressed as ratio x/y given that both are integers.
Irrational Number
Irrational numbers as what its name may imply are those numbers that are not rational. You cannot write these numbers in fraction form; although you can write it in decimal form. Irrational numbers are those real numbers which are not rational. Examples of irrational numbers include the following: the and the because you cannot express all these numbers in form.
Difference between irrational and irrational numbers:
Here are some differences that one should learn about rational and irrational numbers.
First, rational numbers are numbers which we can write as fraction; those numbers that we cannot express as fractions are called , just like .
The number is a rational number, but is not. One can definitely say that are , but one that all are . As stated above, rational numbers can be written as or as .
numbers be written as but .

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