Real Numbers: What are they? Web Resource: http://www.mathsisfun.com/numbers/real-numbers.html
Rational Numbers
![Ratios](http://gould.cx/ted/blog.pix/screen_size_ratios.png)
Ratios
![Fractions](http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-U1OENJr34V0/UBqPTNEMmWI/AAAAAAAANPc/8QiircA9qAA/s1600/fractions.jpg)
Fractions
Definition: Rational Numbers can be written as a ratio of two numbers, as a fraction, and as repeating or terminating decimals.
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Terminating Decimals
Repeating Decimals
![Real Numbers: Numbers that exist on a number line](http://youdlebridges.files.wordpress.com/2009/10/student-number-line.jpg%3Fw%3D455%26h%3D331)
Real Numbers: Numbers that exist on a number line
Irrational Numbers
Definition: Irrational numbers are numbers than cannot be written as a ratio of two numbers or a fractions; they can only be written as non-repeating or non-terminating decimals.
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![Non-repeating decimals and non-terminating](http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_K_EfmsBCTss/TFtDqcS_AnI/AAAAAAAACDk/3GTqg_SpKcU/s1600/pi.jpg)
Non-repeating decimals and non-terminating