Use the ratio go solve the percent problem
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Step-by-step explanation:
We have been given that the rectangle has an area of square meters and a length of
. We are asked to find the width of rectangle.
Since we know that area of a rectangle is width times length of the rectangle, so we can find width of our given rectangle by dividing given area by length of rectangle.
Upon substituting our given values in above formula we will get,
Using exponent rule for quotient we will get,
Therefore, width of our given rectangle will be 9x meters.
You can find counterexamples to disprove this claim. We have positive integers that are perfect square numbers; when we take the square root of those numbers, we get an integer.
For example, the square root of 1 is 1, which is an integer. So if y = 1, then the denominator becomes an integer and thus we get a quotient of two integers (since x is also defined to be an integer), the definition of a rational number.
Example: x = 2, y = 1 ends up with which is rational. This goes against the claim that
is always irrational for positive integers x and y.
Any integer y that is a perfect square will work to disprove this claim, e.g. y = 1, y = 4, y= 9, y = 16. So it is not always irrational.