Is the square root of eight a rational or irrational

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Seth Reno · Answer 1 · 2019-03-02T20:55:35+0000

The square root of 8, written as
√(8)

or sqrt(8), is irrational. We cannot represent this as a fraction of whole numbers.

Contrast this with something like sqrt(25) = 5, which is rational since 5 = 5/1 is a fraction of whole numbers.

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