Last week, Jennet use English to wrote a mass essay, today, I want to challenge writing a math essay.
We all know that root 2 is an irrational number, but, can we prove it? This is what I am going to write about.
First, we need to know what is a rational number. Rational number is a number formed by whole numbers or fractions. So if we wants to prove root 2 is not a rational number, we just have to prove that root 2 is not whole number or fraction.
We know that root 2 is not a whole number, because square of toot 2, which is 2, is greater that 1 square, but smaller than square 2. so root 2 is suppose to be between 1 and 2, and there is no whole number between 1 and 2.So know, we just has to prove root 2 is not a fraction, but this is much more interesting.
In proving this, we have proof by contradiction. It means, if I want to prove that root 2 was not a fraction, we just have to set that root 2 is a fraction, and go on reasoning, and see if we can find a contraction to something we had prove was real or premise. So what is our premise? Is about fraction, about what is a fraction.
If we set root 2 was a fraction, then root 2 can be written as. A and B must be whole numbers, and has to be relatively prime, and, A is not 1. Now, we start roving.
If root 2 is ,
then
We don't need to know whether is an even number, but we knew that 2 multiplies any non 0 whole number equals an even number. So we can say that
is an even number, and so
will be a even number.
And because we knew only even number who multiplies even number can equals an even number. So we can conclude that because is an even number,
will also be an even number.
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We knew that is an even number, and even numbers had at least one factor 2 in it. So
can be written as
, (m is a non 0 whole number.) So
is
, that is
. So
We can get that . We don't need to know weather
is an even number, we just needs to know
is a even number, because
was multiplied by 2.
So we can get that is also an even number, which means
is an even number.
But what is the use of knowing and
are both even numbers? We set that a fraction has to be relatively prime, but if
and
are even numbers, they can be divided by 2, so the fraction is not relatively primed.
We set up root 2 as a fraction, but we made a contradiction. So root 2 is not a fraction, and since root 2 is also not a whole number, we can get that root 2 is not a rational number.
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