Prealgebra (7th Edition)

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Chapter 2 - Section 2.1 - Introduction to Integers - Exercise Set - Page 107: 120

Answer

There is not a smallest positive number. However, there is a smallest positive integer, which is the number 1.

Work Step by Step

There is not a smallest positive number as you can get infinitely close to 0 by increasing the number of decimal places without ever reaching 0. Another way to think about it is that if n is a positive number and $n\gt0$, then $\frac{n}{2}\gt0$, meaning the number can infinitely get smaller.
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