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Saturday, 1 October 2016

Square Root Of 2 Is Irrational

Square Root Of 2 Is Irrational

Let 2=pq where p and q are two positive integers such that pq have no common factors.
(pq)2=2 This means that p^2 is an even number and so p is an even number and can be written as 2r. \therefore 4r^2=2q^2 \\ q^2 = 2r^2 \\ By the same argument as above this means q can be written as 2s but then \frac{p}{q} would have the common factor of 2, and so contradicting initial statement.

Therefore \sqrt{2} must be an irrational number.

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