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By finding their common denominator & adding the top numbers of-the fractions. : )

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Q: How do you add rational numbers?
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Can you add to the rational numbers and get a rational number?

Yes, you can.


What do you call the numbers that we add?

Rational and Irrational Numbers


Can you add two rational numbers and get a rational number?

Every time. The sum of two rational numbers MUST be a rational number.


How do you find a rational number between two given rational numbers?

Add them together and divide by 2 will give one of the rational numbers between two given rational numbers.


What happens when you add two rational numbers?

The result will also be a rational number.


What happens when you add subtract multiply and divide rational numbers?

If you add, subtract or multiply rational numbers, the result will be a rational number. It will also be so if you divide by a non-zero rational number. But division by zero is not defined.


Can you add two rational numbers and get an irrational number?

No. The set of rational numbers is closed under addition (and multiplication).


What kind of number will you always get when you add two rational numbers?

Another rational number.


Can you add three irrational numbers and get a rational number?

no


If three irrational numbers added together is the result irrational number?

You can not add irrational numbers. You can round off irrational numbers and then add them but in the process of rounding off the numbers, you make them rational. Then the sum becomes rational.


Can you add two positive irrational numbers and get a rational number?

no


How you can add two rational numbers?

If the two rational numbers are expressed as p/q and r/s, then their sum is (ps + rq)/(qs)