Question

-3/ -17 it is a positive rational number or negative rational number ​

Answer 1

It is a positive rational number. This is because we have a law in integers which is $(-)\div (-)=(+)$. So in the rational number in the question has a negative numerator and denominator and thus when we simplify to get a positive rational number.

$\frac{-3}{-17}=\frac{3}{17}$

∴ We can conclude that $\frac{-3}{-17}$ is a positive rational number.

Additional Information :)

What is a rational number?

A number is known to be a rational number when the number can be represented in $\frac{p}{q}$ form where p and q are integers and $q\neq 0$.

What are irrational numbers?

Numbers that are not rational numbers are known to be an irrational number. One of the famous irrational number is π (Pi).

Fun fact...

The ancient mathematician named Pythagoras used to believe that all numbers where rational numbers, but his student named Hippasus proved him wrong by giving the explanation that we could not write √2 as. But inspite of this explanation he didn't accept the existence of irrational numbers.