{"id":16676,"date":"2026-05-01T23:30:35","date_gmt":"2026-05-01T17:30:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mcqacademy.com\/en\/mcq\/rationality-of-a-square-root\/"},"modified":"2026-05-01T23:30:35","modified_gmt":"2026-05-01T17:30:35","slug":"rationality-of-a-square-root","status":"publish","type":"mcq","link":"https:\/\/mcqacademy.com\/en\/mcq\/rationality-of-a-square-root\/","title":{"rendered":"Rationality Of A Square Root"},"content":{"rendered":"
Determine whether sqrt(72) is a rational number or an irrational number.<\/p>\n\n
\n
Rational<\/li>\n
Irrational<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"author":39,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","topic":[2489,2547,2639,2692],"subject":[1425],"education_level":[1896],"class_list":["post-16676","mcq","type-mcq","status-publish","hentry","topic-arithmetic-number-system","topic-number-classification","topic-radicals","topic-surds-and-irrational-numbers","subject-mathematics","education_level-hsc"],"mcq_note":"sqrt(72) = sqrt(36 \u00d7 2) = 6\u221a2 and since \u221a2 is irrational, 6\u221a2 is irrational; therefore sqrt(72) is irrational.","mcq_options":[{"right":"no","answer":"Rational"},{"right":"yes","answer":"Irrational"}],"multi_answers":"no","subject_terms":[{"id":1425,"title":"Mathematics","slug":"mathematics"}],"topic_terms":[{"id":2489,"title":"Arithmetic & Number System","slug":"arithmetic-number-system"},{"id":2547,"title":"Number Classification","slug":"number-classification"},{"id":2639,"title":"Radicals","slug":"radicals"},{"id":2692,"title":"Surds And Irrational Numbers","slug":"surds-and-irrational-numbers"}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mcqacademy.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/mcq\/16676","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mcqacademy.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/mcq"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mcqacademy.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/mcq"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mcqacademy.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/39"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mcqacademy.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16676"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mcqacademy.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16676"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mcqacademy.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic?post=16676"},{"taxonomy":"subject","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mcqacademy.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/subject?post=16676"},{"taxonomy":"education_level","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mcqacademy.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/education_level?post=16676"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}