Which of the following is an example of a rational number?

Explanation:

Using your calculator, you should find that

Each approximate result has its decimal digits go on forever without any pattern. So we cannot write those values as a fraction of two integers. The decimal expansion must have some kind of pattern that repeats forever, so we could consider it rational.

Only choice B results in a whole number. The value 14 is the same as 14/1, showing it can be written as a fraction of two integers. Therefore choice B is rational.

7. d. 64

8. i. 32

9. c. 125

10. j. none of the above

11. d. 81

12. i. 216

13. e. none of the above

14. g. 240

15. e. none of the above

16. g. 32

17.   e. none of the above