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:
A. 13%
Step-by-step explanation:
let's suppose there's 1000 bars of chocolate in general
70 % dark = 700 dark choco bars
30 % milk = 300 milk choco bars
20 % have nuts = 200 bars have nuts
80 % don't have nuts = 800 bars don't have nuts
if 90 % of dark chocolate bars don't have nuts, that means 630 dark chocolate bars don't have nuts, but 70 have nuts
200 bars in general have nuts, if only 70 dark chocolate bars have nuts,
200 - 70 = 130
130 = 13%
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Not quite sure what the purpose of this question is, but... How do you get straight A's?
Use a ruler
*insert rimshot*
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Answer: 3/8
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$0.0756 for 18 oz
$0.0634 for 32 oz
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