A irrational number is a number that can't be expressed as a ratio of two whole numbers. That's it.
For examples (in increasing order of difficulty)
1 is a rational number because it is 1/1
0.75 is a rational number because it is equal to 3/4
2.333... (infinite number of digits, all equal to three) is rational because it is equal to 7/3.
sqrt(2) is not a rational number. This is not completely trivial to show but there are some relatively simple proofs of this fact. It's been known since the greek.
pi is irrational. This is much more complicated and is a result from 19th century.
As you see, there is absolutely no mention of the digits in the definition or in the proofs I presented.
Now the result that you probably hear about and wanted to remember (slightly incorrectly) is that a number is rational if and only if its decimal expansion is eventually periodic. What does it mean ?
Take, 5/700 and write it in decimal expansion. It is 0.0057142857142857.. As you can see the pattern "571428" is repeating in the the digits. That's what it means to have an eventually periodic decimal expansion. The length of the pattern can be anything, but as long as there is a repeating pattern, the number is rational and vice versa.
As a consequence, sqrt(2) does not have a periodic decimal expansion. So it has an infinite number of digits but moreover, the digits do not form any easy repeating pattern.
Answer:
- The cabinets have the same base area.
- The cabinets may have the same base dimensions.
- The cabinets may have different base dimensions.
Step-by-step explanation:
The volume of a prism is the product of its base area and height. It doesn't matter whether the prism is right or oblique, and the shape of the base is immaterial.
Both the given prisms have the same volume and height, so their base areas must be the same. The dimensions of the base may be the same, but do not have to be the same.
Answer:
You'd have to look at the size of the pizza and then measure the size of the arc for each slice. The slice of pizza is how many topping is on it. The sector is how much pizza you are consuming from the center to the crust. The arc is the crust around the pizza.
Answer:
1,215
Step-by-step explanation:
It is not equal to -2 because the five is a negative so when adding two different integers are subtracted and with a negative sign.
