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Thank you for the response micromass. I knew I must have been overlooking something like that; it seemed just a little too easy. I will go back to the drawing board and look through some more examples in my text, and see what I can come up with. I appreciate the quick feedback!

Homework Statement If a is a prime number, prove that √a is not a rational number. (You may assume the uniqueness of prime factorization.) Homework Equations Per the text: A positive integer a is said to be prime if a > 1 and whenever a is written as the product of two positive...