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1) Give an example of a rational number AND an irrational number. Explain how someone could tell the difference between your two examples.

2) If you convert your example of a rational number into a decimal, does it terminate? If you convert your example of a rational number into a decimal, does it repeat any digits? Explain your answers.

3) Can every repeating decimal be written as a rational number? Explain why or why not.

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A rational number would be a number like 7 and irrational like 2.43825282962.....Rational numbers are all numbers except for ones that repeat or go on forever

Don’t know how to answer 2

3. Yes it can as long as it has a pattern
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