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Identify 5/6 as irational number

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answer : Since both 5 and 6 are integers or whole numbers, 5/6 is a rational number. When you divide 5 by 6, the decimal that you get is 0.833... which is a repeating decimal because the 3 would continue out for an infinite number of places.
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