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Rational Numbers

Ratios

Ratios

Fractions

Fractions

Definition: Rational Numbers can be written as a ratio of two numbers, as a fraction, and as repeating or terminating decimals.

Terminating Decimals

Terminating Decimals

Repeating Decimals

Repeating Decimals

Real Numbers: Numbers that exist on a number line

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.

Non-repeating decimals and non-terminating

Non-repeating decimals and non-terminating