Question

State whether the following statements are true or false. Give reasons for your answers.

(i) Every natural number is a whole number.

Answer 1

(i) True, ( Consider the whole numbers and natural numbers separately. We know that whole number series is 0,1, 2, 3, 4,5..... .

We know that natural number series is1, 2, 3, 4,5..... .

So, we can conclude that every number of the natural number series lie in the whole number series.

Therefore, we conclude that, yes every natural number is a whole number.