Mathematics – General Mathematics
Scientific paper
2011-09-29
Mathematics
General Mathematics
6 pages
Scientific paper
This short article is aimed at educators and teachers of mathematics.Its goal is simple and direct:to explore some of the basic/elementary properties of proper rational numbers.A proper rational number is a rational which is not an integer. A proper rational r can be written in standard form: r=c/b,where c and b are relatively prime integers; and with b greater than or equal to 2. There are seven theorems, one proposition, and one lemma; Lemma1, in this paper. Lemma1 is a very well known result, commonly known as Euclid's lemma.It is used repeatedly throughout this paper, and its proof can be found in reference[1]. Theorem4(i) gives precise conditions for the sum of two proper rationals to be an integer.Theorem5(a) gives exact conditions for the product to be an integer. Theorem7 states that there exist no two proper rationals both of whose sum and product are integers.This follows from Theorem6 which states that if two rational numbers have a sum being an integer; and a product being an integer;then these two rationals must both be in fact integers.
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