SOLUTION: Please explain why every irrational number is a real number but not every real number is an irrational number?

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Question 97197: Please explain why every irrational number is a real number but not every real number is an irrational number?
Answer by edjones(7311) About Me  (Show Source):
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Raional numbers are numbers that make a ratio eg. 1/3, 4/5, any integer.
pi is a real number that you can't make an exact fraction out of. We don't know the exact number for pi so pi is irrational but real.
Ed