Question

A grocery store has a shelf with half-gallon containers of milk. What type of number best represents the total number of gallon? Explain your answer.

A. Rational Number
B. Interger
C. Whole Numbers
D. Irrational Numbers

Answer 1

Rational numbers.

The grocery store will have a whole number of half gallons =>

number of gallons = n * [1/2] , where n = ∈ N

That means that the number of gallons ∈ Z+ and 0.

Then the answer is the option A. rational number.