Question
Study the Venn diagram.
A Venn diagram. A large box is labeled rational numbers. A box inside the rational numbers box is labeled integers. A box inside the integers box is labeled whole numbers.
Which statement is correct?
–5 cannot be written as a fraction, so it is not rational.
–5 is a rational number, but not an integer.
–5 is a counting number, so it is also a whole number.
–5 is an integer, but not a whole number.
A Venn diagram. A large box is labeled rational numbers. A box inside the rational numbers box is labeled integers. A box inside the integers box is labeled whole numbers.
Which statement is correct?
–5 cannot be written as a fraction, so it is not rational.
–5 is a rational number, but not an integer.
–5 is a counting number, so it is also a whole number.
–5 is an integer, but not a whole number.
Answers
GPT-5 mini
Correct answer: "-5 is an integer, but not a whole number."
Reason: -5 is an integer (and can be written as a fraction, e.g. -5 = -5/1, so it is rational), but whole numbers are the nonnegative integers (0, 1, 2, ...), so -5 is not a whole number.
Reason: -5 is an integer (and can be written as a fraction, e.g. -5 = -5/1, so it is rational), but whole numbers are the nonnegative integers (0, 1, 2, ...), so -5 is not a whole number.