No, the number 38.4 is a rational number. It can be expressed as a fraction, which is a characteristic of rational numbers. 38 4/10, or 384/10.
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It is rational.A number cannot be both rational and irrational.
A decimal expansion means to write out the base 10 digits of a number. Because irrational numbers do not have a closed form, the decimal expansion will always be an approximation. Consider the irrational number pi, which has the following decimal expansion: 3.14159265... Of course there are more digits to pi than that, which is denoted by the "...". It is sadly impossible to list ALL of the digits of an irrational numbers, since if there were a finite number of digits, you could express it as a fraction, which would not be irrational.
It is non-terminating decimal and therefore it is an irrational number
No. A rational number is any terminating numeral. A repeating decimal is irrational.
No. It is a rational number. Any repeating decimal or terminating decimal is rational.