Can a number be a natural number and a real number?

Answer:
All natural numbers are also real numbers, but all real numbers are not necessarily natural numbers. The set of natural numbers {1,2,3,4,...} is a subset of the larger set, integers, which is a subset of the even larger set of real numbers. I hope this makes sense.
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