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Why are percentage rational numbers?

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Anonymous

12y ago
Updated: 8/20/2019

They need not be. For example, the length of the hypotenuse of a unit right angled triangle, as a percentage of its perimeter is not rational. There are infinitely more irrational percentages than there are rational ones, so the question is based on a falsehood.

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