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Is -17 a rational number or irrational number

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Answer:

rational

Explanation:

if a number can be written as a fraction, where p and q are integers and q is a non-zero number

User Luthando Ntsekwa
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A rational number is a number that you can write as a fraction of two integers.

-17 = -17/1, -34/2, etc.

-17 is rational.

Irrational numbers, like pi and sqrt(2), cannot be written as a fraction of integers.
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