Need an answer fast sam said the square root of a rational number must be a rational number. jenna disagreed. she said that it is possible that the square root of a rational number can be irrational. who is correct and why? -jenna is correct because all square roots are irrational numbers. -sam is correct because all square roots of rational numbers are rational. an example is (square root of 121 = 11) -jenna is correct because not all square roots are rational. an example is (square root of 2 =1.414213) -sam is correct because the properties of square roots state that the square root of a rational number is a rational number.

The fence around a quadrilateral-shaped pasture is 3a^2+15a+9 long. three sides of the fence have the following lengths: 5a, 10a-2, a^2-7. what is the length of the fourth side of the fence?

He weights of 2-pound bags of best dog food are approximately normally distributed with a given mean  and standard deviation  according to the empirical rule, what percentage of the bags will have weights within 3 standard deviations of the mean? 47.5%68%95%99.7%

An annual marathon covers a route that has a distance of approximately 26 miles. winning times for this marathon are all over 2 hours. the following data are the minutes over 2 hours for the winning male runners over two periods of 20 years each. earlier period 14 12 15 22 13 10 19 13 9 14 20 18 16 20 23 12 18 17 6 13 recent period 7 11 7 14 8 9 11 14 8 7 9 8 7 9 9 9 9 8 10 8 (a) make a stem-and-leaf display for the minutes over 2 hours of the winning times for the earlier period. use two lines per stem. (use the tens digit as the stem and the ones digit as the leaf. enter none in any unused answer blanks. for more details, view how to split a stem.) minutes beyond 2 hours earlier period 0 1 2 (b) make a stem-and-leaf display for the minutes over 2 hours of the winning times for the recent period. use two lines per stem. (use the tens digit as the stem and the ones digit as the leaf. enter none in any unused answer blanks.) minutes beyond 2 hours recent period (c) compare the two distributions. how many times under 15 minutes are in each distribution