Not completely to its end. If you can completely write a number with digits,
then it's a rational number.
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0.75 is a rational number because it can be expressed as a decimal in the form of 3/4
Numbers that can't be expressed as fractionsAn irrational number is any real number that cannot be expressed as a ratio a/b, where a and b are integers, with b non-zero, and is therefore not a rational number. This means that an irrational number cannot be represented as a simple fraction. Irrational numbers are also those real numbers that cannot be represented as terminating or repeating decimals.
34.74 is a rational decimal number because it can be expressed as a fraction in the form of 1737/50 in its lowest terms
The decimal representation in infinite, non-recurring.
To write the decimal 0.000024 in standard form, you would move the decimal point five places to the right to make it a number between 1 and 10. This would result in the standard form of 2.4 x 10^-5. The negative exponent indicates that the decimal point has been moved to the left of the original number.