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Q: How can a number line be used to compare rational numbers?
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Can rational numbers be placed on the number line?

well every integer fraction whole number natural number are rational number's surely rational numbers are represented on a number line and as rational numbers are the real numbers


What is comparing ordering rational number using a number line?

This means:Draw a number line with some numbers labelled on it.Place dots on the number line where the rational numbers to be compared lie.State how the numbers compare in size with one another.There are various ways of doing this; here are two:1/2 is less than 5/41/2 < 5/4


Is the number line a graph of rational numbers?

The number line includes all rational numbers but also has irrational ones. It is the REAL number line. The square root of non-perfect squares are on it and pi is also on it and they are not rational.


Can rational numbers be ordered on a number line?

Yes.


How do you compare and order rational numbers?

To order fractions and decimals, you can either write them all in the same form and then compare them, or place them on a number line. Recall that numbers increase in value as you move from left to right along a number line.


Is a real number always irrational?

Real numbers can be rational or irrational because they both form the number line.


Does real number line correspond to an irrational number?

No. The real number line corresponds to rational AND irrational numbers.


What is the density property in Math?

The Density Property states that, between two rational numbers on a number line there is another rational number. Mark some fractions on a number line. No matter how dense the number line is, there still is another number between the two numbers.


all numbers that can be written on the number line that include rational and irrational numbers?

That would be the real numbers.


A real number that is not rational?

Real numbers are any numbers that could be on a number line. Rational numbers are numbers that can be expressed as fractions. Real irrational numbers are things like pi or the square root of 2.


How does a number line help compare numbers?

order the numbers from least to greatest


Is 1.68 a real number and why?

Yes, because it can be located on a number line.