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Cindy and victor are playing a math game. The winner must get three in a row of the same type of real numbers and justify how do numbers are alike. Cindy said that Cindy and Victor are playing a math game. The winner must get three in a row of the same type of real numbers and justify how the numbers are alike. Cindy said she won because she was able to get three rational numbers on a diagonal. Victor said he won with three positive numbers in a column. Can both players say they won, for different reasons? Explain

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Answer:

Yes both players can say they won. Cindy and Victor won

Explanation:

Both players can say they won because they both kept to the rules of the game. Cindy got rational real numbers on a diagonal while Victor got positive numbers on a column which are real numbers too. Pi on the last row on his column for the diagram on the right(see attachment) is 22/7 or 3.14159... is an irrational real number but is still a positive real number.

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