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# Whole numbers?

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04 Jun 2011, 14:08
for the gmat, are whole numbers classified as all positive integers and 0....or do they include negative numbers as well?

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04 Jun 2011, 14:30
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tomcal36dc wrote:
for the gmat, are whole numbers classified as all positive integers and 0....or do they include negative numbers as well?

Whole numbers are all integers from $$0 \hspace{3}to \hspace{3} + \infty$$
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06 Jun 2011, 08:38
tomcal36dc wrote:
for the gmat, are whole numbers classified as all positive integers and 0....or do they include negative numbers as well?

GMAT doesn't generally use the terms whole numbers (0, 1, 2....) and natural numbers (1, 2, 3, ...).
In many questions, you will find that variables are integers (... -3, -2, -1, 0, 1, 2, 3...) so you have to consider positive and negative values.
They could also give you positive integers which would be 1, 2, 3, ...
or non-negative integers which would be 0, 1, 2, 3, ...
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