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Using the numbers 5, 8, and 24, create a problem using no more than four operations (addition, subtraction, multiplication, division, square, square root, cube, cube root) where the solution will be an irrational number. Explain why the result of your operations is an irrational number?

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the decimal goes on and on so it would be an irrational number
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(5•8) _
-------=1.66
24

It's an irrational number because the decimal continues on forever
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