The teacher announced that the class would be learning more about rational numbers. An English major raised his hand and said that numbers weren’t rational After all; a number certainly couldn’t think...The teacher announced that the class would be learning more about rational numbers. An English major raised his hand and said that numbers weren’t rational After all; a number certainly couldn’t think let alone be rational! The root in the word ‘rational’ is ratio”. A rational number is simply a number that can be written as the ratio of an integer and a nonzero integer. Someone asked if that definition would be on the test, and if so, would it be on an English test or math test?
