-3.1 and 4.6
Yes - all numbers that can be written as ratios, even negative numbers, are rational numbers.
Yes, -1/2 or -0.5 is a real number. It is also a rational number and a nonrepeating decimal rational number. All negative and positive numbers as well as zero are real numbers. The real numbers also includes the irrational numbers.
Seems to me that exactly half of them are.
The number -1/2 is a rational number, a negative integer divided by a positive integer.
divide by 2, one answer is negative and the other is positive. if your question is "how do you halve negative numbers?"
A half belongs to the positive fractions family, which comes under fractions, which comes under the large family of rational numbers.
First of all counting numbers (positive integers) are rational numbers so without rational numbers there would be no counting. You could not equitably share one item between two or more people without fractions (rational numbers). Everything does not come in whole numbers - there are times when you need half-a-day, or 2.5 teaspoons, etc.
1.5 is rational. Rational numbers are numbers that can be written as a fraction. Irrational numbers cannot be expressed as a fraction.
Negative is the bottom half and positive is the top
Yes, -1/2 is a rational number
Yes.
No. One half is positive but not whole.