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Okay Aspiring math people Another drill question for you Here

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we go Which of the following values is rational Wait

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till you're married and you'll have that same question But

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in a completely different context it's important to be able

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to sift the rational number from the irrational ones right

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We wouldn't want to commit a perfectly sane imager to

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the crazy house now would we Irrational numbers go to

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an infinite number of decimal places It kind of like

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someone who is bonkers going on on on on about

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a bunch of totally unrelated topics Pi is a famous

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one and it stays irrational even when it's added to

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or multiplied by a rational number So get rid of

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cnd based on this reasoning while five plus pie would

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be something like eight point one four one five nine

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blab above a block and pi squared would be mega

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irrational right It's not an official math term but go

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with us on it That leaves us with well the

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to answer choices that feature square roots Anything that isn't

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the square root of a perfect square is irrational so

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that eliminates the root of five right there and well

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be doesn't look like a perfect square but square root

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and square cancel each other out So that leaves us

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with just five which is boring but rational and you 00:01:20.79 --> [endTime] can share the blankets with it peacefully at night

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