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Is square root of 49/5 a rational number?

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It depends on how that’s written mathematically.

If it’s sqrt(49) / 5, then yes, since that’s 7/5 and 7/5 is a fraction of two integers.

If it was sqrt( 49/5 ), where the /5 is inside the square root, then the answer is no.
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