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Is 2.5 a rational number? why?

Is 2.5 a rational number? why?
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Is 2.5 a rational number? why?

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Yes,since it stops at 5 and does not continue endlessly without a pattern, it can also be written as the fraction 25/10 or 5/2
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It's irrational because you can turn 2.5 into a fraction without having a mixed fraction
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