Rational Chapter 9

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Rational INTRODUCTIONYou began your study of numbers by counting objects around numbers used for this purpose were called counting numbers ornatural numbers. They are 1, 2, 3, 4, ... By including 0 to naturalnumbers, we got the whole numbers, , 0, 1, 2, 3, ... The negativesof natural numbers were then put together with whole numbers to makeup integers. Integers are ..., 3, 2, 1, 0, 1, 2, 3, .... We, thus, extendedthe number system, from natural numbers to whole numbers and fromwhole numbers to were also introduced to fractions .

the number system, from natural numbers to whole numbers and from whole numbers to integers. You were also introduced to fractions. These are numbers of the form numerator denominator, ... By multiplying the numerator and denominator of a rational

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