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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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Answer:jenna


Jenna is correct because not all square roots are rational. An example is √2=1.414213


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jenna is correct, radical 2 is not rational but 2 is 
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