Is 0.375 rational or irrational?

1 Answer
Apr 11, 2015

Anything that can be expressed as a fraction with an integer numerator and an integer denominator is rational.

0.375 = (375)/(1000)
and is therefore rational.

Any number which when written as a decimal form which terminates (that is ends with only 0-value digits following the last digit) or any decimal form number that ends with a sequence which repeats indefinitely is rational.

For example, both
0.3750000[0...]
and
6.7292929[29...] (with the 29 pattern repeating forever)
are rational

An irrational number might look like:
4.37337333733337... where the number of 3's between 7's increases by 1 with each segment of the series
(Note this is only an example. There are many different ways in which the sequence can be non-repeating).