Classifying Rational Numbers

What type of numbers are positive, whole, and begin with 1?

• Natural numbers

• Whole numbers

• Integers

• Rational numbers

Which set of numbers includes all natural numbers and zero?

• Integers

• Whole numbers

• Rational numbers

• Negative numbers

What category of numbers includes all whole numbers and their opposites (negatives)?

• Natural numbers

• Rational numbers

• Integers

• Fractions

Numbers that can be written as fractions, terminating decimals, or repeating decimals are classified as what?

• Irrational numbers

• Integers

• Rational numbers

• Whole numbers

Match the word with the proper definition.

Groups:

(a) Rational Numbers

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(b) Integers

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(c) Whole numbers

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(d) Natural/ Counting Numbers

• Whole numbers and their opposites (negatives)

• All natural numbers and zero

• Numbers that can be written as fractions, terminating decimals, and repeating decimals

• The positive, whole counting numbers begining with one

How would the number -15/3 be classified most specifically?

• Natural number

• Whole number

• Integer

• Rational number