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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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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?

User Jeffox
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jenna is correct
take √2 for example
that is irrational
since 1 example disproves it, sam is wrong and jenna is right
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