SOLUTION: Select any irrational number and turn into a rational number by using addition, subtraction, multiplication, or division. Help I am not understanding this......thank you for the h

Question 177274: Select any irrational number and turn into a rational number by using addition, subtraction, multiplication, or division.
Help I am not understanding this......thank you for the help
Found 2 solutions by jim_thompson5910, stanbon:
Answer by jim_thompson5910(35256) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
Take the irrational number and multiply it by itself to get

So

So by multiplying by itself, we took the irrational number and made it into a rational number (7 is rational since )
Answer by stanbon(75887) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
Select any irrational number and turn into a rational number by using addition, subtraction, multiplication, or division.
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sqrt(2) is an irrational number.
[sqrt(2)*sqrt(2)] = 2 is a rational number
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Cheers,
Stan H.
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