Responses
No, radicals always simplify to integers, so they are rational.
No, radicals always simplify to integers, so they are rational.
Yes, radicals can't be simplified, so they must be irrational.
Yes, radicals can't be simplified, so they must be irrational.
Yes, radicals are irrational
Yes, radicals are irrational
No, some radicals simplify to rational numbers.
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The correct response is:
No, some radicals simplify to rational numbers.
Not all expressions involving radicals are automatically irrational. For example, \(\sqrt{4} = 2\), which is a rational number. So, radicals can sometimes simplify to rational values.
