Question

Garrett was given two numbers, 1.6 and 25, and was instructed by his teacher Mrs. Hellie to find

the sum. Garrett found the sum and stated that the answer was a rational number. Do you agree or
disagree with Garrett? Justify your answer.

Answer 1

I agree with Garret.

Explanation:

A rational number is a number that can be expressed as the quotient or fraction p/q of two integers, a numerator p and a non-zero denominator q.

To get rid of the decimal point in the numerator, we count the numbers after the decimal in 26.6, and multiply the numerator and denominator by 10 if it is 1 number. Therefore, in this case we multiply the numerator and denominator by 10 to get the following fraction:

266 / 10

Then, we need to divide the numerator and denominator by the greatest common divisor(GCD) to simplify the fraction.The GCD of 266 and 10 is 2. When we divide the numerator and denominator by 2, we get the following:

133 / 5, which is ni a p/q form.