A natural number _a rational number.

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A natural number is a positive integer, example, 1,2,5,299 etc.
A rational number is a number that can be expressed as a fraction of integers, such as 245/127, 1/2, 5/1,8/1,...
Since a natural number can be expressed as a fraction of integers, so

a natural number IS a rational number.

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