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Description: 1) Give an example of a rational number AND an irrational number. What is the difference between them? 2) What is the decimal equivalent of your two examples? 3) Can every repeating decimal be written as a rational number? Explain why or why not

Holt Mcdougal Larson Pre-algebra: Student Edition 2012

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ISBN:9780547587776

Author:HOLT MCDOUGAL

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Chapter9: Real Numbers And Right Triangles

Section9.4: Real Numbers

Problem 40E

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1) Give an example of a rational number AND an irrational number.

What is the difference between them?

2) What is the decimal equivalent of your two examples?

3) Can every repeating decimal be written as a rational number? Explain why or why not.

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A rational number is of the form $\frac{p}{q}$ where $p and q$ are integers where $q \neq 0$ .

The numbers that cannot be expressed in the form $\frac{p}{q}$ is called irrational numbers.

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Rational number : $\frac{2}{5}$

Irrational number : $\sqrt{2}$

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