Question #8f286

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Nov 10, 2017

Rational number

Explanation:

Whole numbers: what they sound like. 1, 2, 3, 4, 124, 5325, 73,200. 3/11 is not a whole number - it's nearly 0.3, which isn't a whole number either.

Integers: just another name for whole numbers. Can be positive or negative.

Natural number: positive integers.

rational number: a number that is composed of two integers divided by one another - as a fraction. This includes #3/11#. Since all whole numbers can be expressed this way, #("number"/1)#, all integers are rational numbers.

irrational numbers: unending strings of decimals that can't be expressed as a fraction. These include #pi# and #root (2)#.