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3.6 Real Numbers

How naturals, integers, rationals, and irrationals nest into one number line, and the commutative, associative, and distributive properties.

Contemporary Mathematics, 3.6 Real Numbers

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3.6 Exercise 1

Determine if each of the following are real numbers:

  1. 437\frac{4 \sqrt{3}}{7}
  2. 13.338113.3381
  3. 17−817 \sqrt{- 8}
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3.6 Exercise 3

Identify all subsets of the real numbers to which the following real numbers belong:

  1. 1414
  2. −14.223- 14.223
  3. 17\sqrt{17}
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3.6 Exercise 7

In each of the following, identify which property of the real numbers is being applied.

  1. 4+(8+13)=(4+8)+134 + \left(8 + 13\right) = \left(4 + 8\right) + 13
  2. 34×(134)=134 \times \left(\frac{1}{34}\right) = 1
  3. 14+27=27+1414 + 27 = 27 + 14
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3.6 Exercise 9

Use properties of the real numbers and mental math to calculate the following:

  1. 2×13×502 \times 13 \times 50
  2. 13+84+2713 + 84 + 27
  3. 9×16×119 \times 16 \times 11
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3.5 Irrational Numbers3.7 Clock Arithmetic

Adapted from Contemporary Mathematics © 2023 Rice University. Licensed under CC BY 4.0. Source: Contemporary Mathematics. Imported at revision fa7c1a1.

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