Classifying Real Numbers

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Irrational

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Irrational

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Is -5.5 an integer? Why or why not?

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No, because integers do not have decimals.

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....are the set of whole numbers and their additive inverses. {... -3, -2, -1, 0, 1, 2, 3, …}

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Integers

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Numbers that CANNOT be written as fractions in the form , where a and b are integers and b is not equal to 0

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Irrational Numbers

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has a finite number of digits, meaning that after a finite number of decimal places, all following decimal places have a value of 0

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Terminating Decimals

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...is a decimal in which a digit, or a group of digits, repeat(s) infinitely.

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Repeating Decimals

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Is ½ a terminating decimal or a repeating decimal?

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terminating decimal

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Why is -4 not a whole number?

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It's negative and whole numbers are positive.

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An irrational number:

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Goes on forever and does not repeat, can't be turned into a fraction, includes pi and √2.