Question

URGENT!!

Statement:

All integers are irrational numbers.

True or False?

No whole numbers are irrational numbers.

True or False?

Some rational numbers are not integers.

True or False?

Some integers are not whole numbers.

True or False?

Answer 1

Answers:

1. False
2. True
3. True
4. True

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Explanations:

1. Any integer is rational. For instance, the integer 7 can be written as 7/1 which is a ratio or fraction of integers. Or we could say 14/2 or 21/3 if you wanted to get a bit creative. Since any integer is rational, this means it cannot be irrational. A real number is either rational or irrational. It cannot be both. The name "irrational" literally means "not rational". This is why statement 1 is false.
2. The claim "no whole numbers are irrational numbers" is a true statement because any whole number is rational (for very similar reasoning as explained in statement 1 above), which means it's not possible for a whole number to be irrational.
3. A rational number like 2/3 is not an integer. A quick way to check is to note that 2/3 = 0.67 approximately. Whole numbers and integers do not have any decimal portion to them. We have confirmed statement 3 is true.
4. The set of integers is {..., -3, -2, -1, 0, 1, 2, 3, ...} while the whole numbers is the set {0, 1, 2, 3, ...}. The key difference is that integers involve negative values. Whole numbers do not have negative values. Something like -7 is an integer, but it is not part of the set of whole numbers. Statement 4 is true because of this.