True or False?
The sum of two irrational numbers is always an irrational number.
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Unless "a" is irrational but your proof makes sense. I prefer the proof with Pi or euler's irrational numbers. It's simpler.
Pi +(-Pi) =0 & 0is rational
When I read the question, I thought Pi + (#-Pi) = #, yours is more elegant.
I'll buy this logic analogous to euler's irrational number used instead of Pi.
We have to prove that irrational+irrational = irrational.We can just put up an example to verify.E.g.. ( 4 − 3 3 ) + 3 3 = 4 which is a rational number.
it only takes one counterexample to prove a statement wrong
I agree @Joseph Ferri
consider the numbers √2 and -√2 both are irrationals but sum is 0 is rational
1/2(irrational)+1/2(irrational)=2/2=1 (rational)
1/2 is rational.
1/2 is a rational number.Irrational are the numbers that cannot be written in p/q form
1/2 is rational.
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1/2 is rational but 1/2(INSERT ANY IRRATIONAL NUMBER) is not
Uhhhh. 1/2 is irrational?
Read the comments on @Rahul Kamble 's 'solution'
root5 + -root5 = 0: 7 + root 3 = 8 - root3 = 15 ia rational
This is way more complicated than it needs to be, but imagine the numbers 0.45445444544445... and 0.54554555455554...
Their sum would be 1, which is rational.
Seriously? How about pi plus -pi... It equals zero... This wasn't a difficult question.
Considering that x is an irrational number between 0 and 1 and that a sum of an irrational number with a rational number is a rational number: x + (1-x) = 1, which is a rational number. Therefore, a sum of irrational numbers is not always an irrational number.
whenever we probe something is not true we need only one counter example and the example is i+(-i)=0 which is a rational number
It seems like you are confusing irrational numbers & complex numbers.
If the sum of 2 irrational numbers is always an irrational number, then 2 + ( 2 − 2 ) must be an irrational number, but it is 2 , which is rational, so it is false that the sum of 2 irrational numbers is always an irrational number.
You can add together an irrational and its additive inverse to make 0 which is rational.
Proof: a + ( − a ) = a − a = 0
The title kind of gave it away actually.
Pi + (1-Pi) = 1. Pi is irrational (and transcendental btw). (1-Pi) is irrational (again transcendental btw). 1 is not irrational (nor trancendental).
It's not always true. But for any irrational number, we can choose an irrational number such that their sum could be a rational number.
If irrational numbers are non repeating, non terminating decimals is this practically possible, our just theoretically possible?
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Yes.. Let (a+√b) be an irrational number. Then there exists an another irrational number (c-√b) such that their sum (a+c) is a rational number.
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Let's take the irrational numbers a + b c and its conjugate a − b c , where c is squarefree and a , b are rational. If we add them, then we get the answer 2 a which is rational.