NCERT solutions for Class 9 Maths chapter 1 - Number Systems [Latest edition]

Is zero a rational number? Can you write it in the form p/q, where p and q are integersand q ≠ 0?

Find six rational numbers between 3 and 4.

Find five rational numbers between 3/5 and 4/5.

State whether the following statement is true or false. Give reasons for your answers.

Every natural number is a whole number.

State whether the following statement is true or false. Give reasons for your answers.

Every integer is a whole number.

State whether the following statement is true or false. Give reasons for your answers.

Every rational number is a whole number.

State whether the following statement is true or false. Justify your answer.

Every irrational number is a real number.

State whether the following statement is true or false. Justify your answer.

Every point on the number line is of the form `sqrt m`, where m is a natural number.

State whether the following statement is true or false. Justify your answer.

Every real number is an irrational number.

Are the square roots of all positive integers irrational? If not, give an example of the square root of a number that is a rational number.

Show how `sqrt5` can be represented on the number line.

Write the following in decimal form and say what kind of decimal expansion has: 

`36/100`

Write the following in decimal form and say what kind of decimal expansion has: 

`1/11`

Write the following in decimal form and say what kind of decimal expansion has: 

`4 1/8`

Write the following in decimal form and say what kind of decimal expansion has: 

`3/13`

Write the following in decimal form and say what kind of decimal expansion has: 

`2/11`

Write the following in decimal form and say what kind of decimal expansion has: 

`329/400`

You know that `1/7=0.bar142857.` Can you predict what the decimal expansions of `2/7, 3/7, 4/7, 5/7, 6/7`  are, Without actually doing the long division? If so, how?

[Hint : Study the remainders while finding the value of `1/7` carefully.]

Express the following in the form p/q, where p and q are integers and q ≠ 0.

`0.bar6`

Express the following in the form p/q, where p and q are integers and q ≠ 0.

`0.4bar7`

Express the following in the form `p/q`, where p and q are integers and q ≠ 0.

`0.bar001`

Express 0.99999 .... in the form p/q. Are you surprised by your answer? With your teacher and classmates discuss why the answer makes sense.

What can the maximum number of digits be in the repeating block of digits in the decimal expansion of 1/17? Perform the division to check your answer.

Look at several examples of rational numbers in the form p/q (q≠0), where p and q are integers with no common factors other than 1 and having terminating decimal representations (expansions). Can you guess what property q must satisfy?

Write three numbers whose decimal expansions are non-terminating non-recurring.

Find three different irrational numbers between the rational numbers `5/7" and "9/11.`

Classify the following number as rational or irrational :-

`sqrt23`

Classify the following number as rational or irrational :-

`sqrt225`

Classify the following number as rational or irrational :-

0.3796

Classify the following number as rational or irrational :-

7.478478...

Classify the following number as rational or irrational :-

1.1010010001...

Visualise 3.765 on the number line, using successive magnification.

Visualise `4.bar26`  on the number line, up to 4 decimal places.

Classify the following numbers as rational or irrational :-

` 2-sqrt5`

Classify the following numbers as rational or irrational :-

`(3+sqrt23)-sqrt23`

Classify the following numbers as rational or irrational :-

`(2sqrt7)/(7sqrt7)`

Classify the following numbers as rational or irrational :-

`1/sqrt2`

Classify the following numbers as rational or irrational :-

`2π`

Simplify of the following expression :-

`(3+sqrt3)(2+sqrt2)`

Simplify of the following expression :-

`(3+sqrt3)(3-sqrt3)`

Simplify of the following expression :-

`(sqrt5+sqrt2)^2`

Simplify of the following expression :-

`(sqrt5-sqrt2)(sqrt5+sqrt2)`

Recall, π is defined as the ratio of the circumference (say c) of a circle to its diameter (say d). That is, π = c/d. This seems to contradict the fact that p is irrational. How will you resolve this contradiction?

Represent `sqrt9.3`  on the number line.

Rationalise the denominator of the following :-

`1/sqrt7`

Rationalise the denominator of the following :-
`1/(sqrt7-sqrt6)`

Rationalise the denominator of the following :-
`1/(sqrt5+sqrt2)`

Rationalise the denominator of the following :-
`1/(sqrt7-2)`

Find :-

`64^(1/2)`

Find :-

`32^(1/5)`

Find :-

`125^(1/3)`

Find :-

`9^(3/2)`

Find :-
`32^(2/5)`

Find :-

`16^(3/4)`

Find :-

`125^(-1/3)`

Simplify :-

`2^(2/3).2^(1/5)`

Simplify :-

`(1/3^3)^7`

Simplify :-

`11^(1/2)/11^(1/4)`

Simplify :-

`7^(1/2).8^(1/2)`