Question

Determine if the statement is always, sometimes or never true.





A natural number is a whole number.



a.

always

c.

never


b.

sometimes

Answer 1

whole numbers \(\{0,1,2,3,4,5,6,7,.....\}\)
natural numbers \(\{1,2,3,4,5,6,7,....\}\)

Obviously every natural numbers is whole, but the converse is NOT true.

what number is whole but NOT natural?

Answer 2

0?

Answer 3

correct

Answer 4

that is the only difference.

Answer 5

so the answer is sometimes?

Answer 6

no, because every natural numbers is a whole number

Answer 7

so the answer is always

Answer 8

but if they would have asked you

A whole number is a natural number.

then the answer would be sometimes.

Answer 9

oh ok cool thanks! How about "A natural number is a whole number."