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What set or sets does negative squareroot of 20 belong to? is it a real number, rational, integer, whole number, irrational, or natural?​

User Rvirding
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Answer:

Real number and Irrational number

Explanation:

Given


-\sqrt{ 20

Required

The set it belongs to

First, solve the expression


-√( 20) = -4.472136

The above number is not an integer and it is not whole or natural because it has decimal points

It is not a rational number because it cannot be expressed as a simple fraction

However, the number can be categorized as either irrational or real because of the level of the decimal point in the result

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