SOLUTION: is -5 irrational?

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Question 1208268: is -5 irrational?
Found 2 solutions by math_tutor2020, ikleyn:
Answer by math_tutor2020(3817) About Me  (Show Source):
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Answer: No, it's not irrational

Reason: We can write -5 as -5/1
Since we have a fraction or ratio of two integers, it proves that -5 is rational.
An irrational number is something like pi = 3.14... that cannot be written as a fraction of two integers.

Answer by ikleyn(52781) About Me  (Show Source):
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Integer numbers live in heaven  (like in paradise).

    They enjoy all the pleasures of living in paradise.  (Like  American retired people after  40  years hardworking).


Rational numbers live in purgatory.  (Like  American retired people after  10-15 years hardworking).


Irrational numbers live in hell.

    Every day and every night the devils fry them in a frying pane,  extract square roots from them,  and turn them inside out
    by raising them in degree  (-1),  so they continue struggling permanently,  still remaining irrational numbers forever.



        Let' start raising money to beg for irrational numbers from hell.

        It takes  1  (just one)  cent for each irrational number.