Is 1/5 a

Irrational number
Rational
neither

2 answers

What do you think?

http://www.mathsisfun.com/irrational-numbers.html
rational. Rational numbers can be written down as a ratio.
That means it can be written as a fraction, in which both the numerator (the number on top) and the denominator (the number on the bottom) are whole numbers. The number 8 is a rational number because it can be written as the fraction 8/1.