document.write( "Question 48342: i'm not sure if this question is in the right section. its not from a textbook, it is from an algebra II honors summer packet.\r
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i'm not sure if this question is in the right \r\n" );
document.write( "section. its not from a textbook, it is from an algebra II honors summer packet.\r\n" );
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document.write( "it says:\r\n" );
document.write( "name the sets of numbers to which each number belongs.\r\n" );
document.write( "use N, W, Z, Q, I, or R.\r\n" );
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document.write( "and the numbers are:\r\n" );
document.write( "-1/3,     sqrt5,   and pi.\r\n" );
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document.write( "to me it is very vague, but that is all the information i was given.\r\n" );
document.write( "maybe the letters have a specific meaning that i was never taught. \r\n" );
document.write( "any help at all would be greatly appreciated.\r\n" );
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document.write( "N is for \"Natural numbers\".  It is the set of numbers used to count with\r\n" );
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document.write( "N = {1, 2, 3, 4, ... }\r\n" );
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document.write( "W is for \"Whole numbers\".  In addition to the natural numbers, W also\r\n" );
document.write( "contains 0.\r\n" );
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document.write( "W = {0, 1, 2, 3, 4, ... }\r\n" );
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document.write( "Z is the set of all integers, positive, negative and 0\r\n" );
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document.write( "Z = {..., -4, -3, -2, -1, 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, ...}\r\n" );
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document.write( "Q stands for \"Quotients of integers\" which means the set of rational numbers\r\n" );
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document.write( "I stands for \"Irrational numbers\" which means all real numbers which are\r\n" );
document.write( "not rational numbers, i.e cannot be written as the quotient of two integers.\r\n" );
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document.write( "R stands for \"Real numbers\" which includes all the above.\r\n" );
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document.write( "-1/3 is the Quotient of two integers -1, and 3, so it is a rational number and\r\n" );
document.write( "a member of Q. -1/3 is also, of course, a member of R.\r\n" );
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document.write( "Ö5 and p are irrational because they cannot be writen as the quotient of \r\n" );
document.write( "two integers.  They both belong to I and of course R.\r\n" );
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