{"id":1003,"date":"2012-03-02T20:53:44","date_gmt":"2012-03-02T20:53:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/schooltutoring.com\/scholarship\/?p=1003"},"modified":"2014-12-02T08:33:47","modified_gmt":"2014-12-02T08:33:47","slug":"rational-and-irrational-numbers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/schooltutoring.com\/scholarship\/2012\/03\/02\/rational-and-irrational-numbers\/","title":{"rendered":"Rational and Irrational Numbers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Rational numbers<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A rational number is any real number that can be written as a ratio, that is, it can be written as a fraction. A rational number can be expressed as terminating or repeating decimal. A rational number can be a natural number, decimal number, whole number, integer, mixed number or a fraction.<\/p>\n<p>Examples:<\/p>\n<p>7 is a rational number as it can be written as the fraction 7\/1.<\/p>\n<p>3\/2, -5, 3.6425 are rational numbers<\/p>\n<p>\u221a9 is a rational number as 9 is perfect square and can be expressed as -3 and +3.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Irrational numbers<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>An irrational number can be written as a decimal, but not as a fraction. It has endless non-repeating digits. Many square roots, cube roots, etc are irrational<\/p>\n<p>Examples:<\/p>\n<p>\u03c0 = 3.141592654\u2026\u2026..<\/p>\n<p><em>e<\/em> = 2.718281828459\u2026.<\/p>\n<p>\u221a2 = 1.4142135623<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>SchoolTutoring Academy is the premier educational services company for K-12 and college students. We offer tutoring programs for students in K-12, AP classes, and college. To learn more about how we help parents and students in Owen Sound visit: <a href=\"..\/..\/tutoring-in-owen-sound\/\">Tutoring in Owen Sound<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rational numbers A rational number is any real number that can be written as a ratio, that is, it can be written as a fraction. A rational number can be expressed as terminating or repeating decimal. A rational number can be a natural number, decimal number, whole number, integer, mixed number or a fraction. Examples: [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":19,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[986,1199,1486],"class_list":["post-1003","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-pre-calculus","tag-irrationalnumbers","tag-non-terminatingnumbers","tag-rationalnumbers"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/schooltutoring.com\/scholarship\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1003","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/schooltutoring.com\/scholarship\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/schooltutoring.com\/scholarship\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/schooltutoring.com\/scholarship\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/19"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/schooltutoring.com\/scholarship\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1003"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/schooltutoring.com\/scholarship\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1003\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/schooltutoring.com\/scholarship\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1003"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/schooltutoring.com\/scholarship\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1003"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/schooltutoring.com\/scholarship\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1003"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}