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Question 635601: Rational Or Irrational?
-22/-25?
negative 22 over negative 25?
Can you help?
Thanks(:
Answer by MathLover1(20850)   (Show Source):
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Any whole number, fraction, mixed number or decimal; together with its negative image.
A rational number is a nameable number, in the sense that we can name it in the standard way we name whole numbers, fractions and mixed numbers.
 is a rational number.......
written as a decimal:
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unlike irrational number,we can say that we truly know a rational number.
When we express a rational number as a decimal, then either the decimal will be exact like  , or it will have a predictable pattern of digits like 
But if we attempted to express an irrational number as an exact decimal, then, clearly, we could not, because if we could the number would be rational.
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