Irrational Irrational = ? \dfrac{\text{Irrational}}{\text{Irrational}} = ?

True or false:

The quotient of two irrational numbers is always irrational.

True False

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5 solutions

Chew-Seong Cheong
Sep 29, 2017

Note that π \pi is irrational and so is 2 π 2\pi . But π 2 π = 1 2 \dfrac \pi{2\pi} = \dfrac 12 is rational. Therefore, the statement is false ,

Nazmus Sakib
Sep 29, 2017

3 3 = 1 \dfrac{\sqrt3}{\sqrt3}=1

John Brocato
Sep 29, 2017

The simplest thing is to think that any nonzero number divided by itself is 1.

Mohammad Farhat
Sep 1, 2018

τ π = 2 \huge \frac{\tau}{\pi} = 2

2 2 = 1 \large \frac{\sqrt{2}}{\sqrt{2}}= 1

Note: 1 is rational while square root of 2 is irrational

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