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Is the square root of eight a rational or irrational

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rational number.
good luck!
User Usman Younas
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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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