Final answer:
The claim that 1936 is the last year with a whole number square root is incorrect; 1936 is a perfect square (44^2), and the next year with a whole number square root is 2025, which is 45^2.
Step-by-step explanation:
The statement that 1936 is the last year whose square root was a whole number is incorrect. The square root of 1936 is indeed 44, which is a whole number. To find the next year whose square root will be a whole number, we simply look for the next perfect square after 1936. Since 44 squared is 1936, the next whole number is 45, and thus we must square 45 to find the next perfect square.
Calculating 45 times 45, we get 2025. Therefore, the year 2025 is the next year after 1936
whose square root is a whole number, which is 45.