Sam said the square root of a rational number must be a rational number. Jenna disagreed. She said that it is possible that the

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Sam said the square root of a rational number must be a rational number. Jenna disagreed. She said that it is possible that the

square root of a rational number can be irrational. Who is correct and why?

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ratelena [41] · Answer 1 · 2022-03-24T21:57:11+03:00

Jenna is correct because the square root of a rational number can still be irrational.

Take for example the square root of 2. It is an irrational number than goes 1.41421...

If you multiply just the first however many digits of the result by itself, you will never end up with a perfect 2, because the square root is irrational.