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Which of these statements is/are always true?

Statement 1 \text{Statement 1} : \quad If A A is positive and irrational , then A \sqrt{A} is irrational.

Statement 2 \text{Statement 2} : \quad If n = x 3 , x 3 = y 2 n = x^3, |x^3|=y^{2} where x x and y y are Integers, then n \sqrt{n} is rational .

Select one or more

Statement 1 Statement 2

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2 solutions

Yashas Ravi
Apr 25, 2019

Statement 1 1 is not always true A √A is imaginary if A < 0 A<0 . Statement 2 2 is always true as the square root of a positive irrational number is always irrational. Statement 3 3 is not always true since x 3 x^3 could be a negative integer; the problem never states that x > 0 x>0 .

@Vaibhav Priyadarshi .How do you do select one or more?

SRIJAN Singh - 8 months, 3 weeks ago
Richard Desper
Sep 18, 2020

Statement 1:

A \sqrt{A} is well-defined since A A is positive. So either A \sqrt{A} is rational or irrational. But if A = p q \sqrt{A} = \frac{p}{q} for p , q p,q integers, then A = p 2 q 2 A = \frac{p^2}{q^2} . We are told that A A is irrational, thus A \sqrt{A} must also be irrational.

Statement 2:

If n = x 3 , x 3 = y 2 n = x^3, |x^3| = y^2 for x , y x,y integers, then there are two possibilities:

a) n < 0 n < 0 , in which case n \sqrt{n} is not well-defined

b) n 0 n \geq 0 , in which case n \sqrt{n} is rational.

Without bothering to prove that these are the only two possibilities, I'll note that n = 64 n = -64 shows that this statement need not always be true. In this case, x = 4 , y = ± 8 , x = -4, y = \pm 8, but 64 \sqrt{-64} is not well-defined.

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