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 Is zero a rational number? Can you write it in the form of pq, where p and q are integers and q0?

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Hint: Try writing various fractions such that 0 is in the numerator and it is divided by some integer q such that q0. If all such numbers exist then zero is a rational number.

Complete answer:

As we know a rational number is a number which is represented in the form of ab , where b0 and a and b have not any common factors except 1.

Then it can be represented as a fraction of two integers.

For example 1015 

As we see this a fraction but not written in lowest form of fraction so first convert this fraction into lowest form of fraction.

1015=2×53×5

Now cancel out the common terms we have,

1015=23

So this fraction converts into a rational number where (30) and has no common factors except 1.

Now consider the given number zero (0).

As we know 0 is an integer.

So when we divide 0 by any integer except itself the value is 0.

So 0 is written as 0q=pq where p and q both are integers and (P = 0, q0) and it is written in lowest form of fraction (i.e. it has no common factors except 1).

Therefore 0 is a rational number.

Note: In the definition of rational numbers such that pq,q0. It is defined that q should not be equal to zero because if it is not so, we can have a fraction of the form finite divided by 0, which will be nothing but not-denied. Hence this condition is imposed to take into consideration only defined fractions.