Sometimes it is and sometimes it isn't. The square root of 2 and the square root of 3 are both irrational, as is their product, the square root of 6. The square root of 2 and the square root of 8 are both irrational, but their product, the square root of 16, is rational (in fact, it equals 4).
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sqrt(2)*sqrt(3) is an irrational product.
You get a product which can be rational or irrational.
The product of 2 rationals must be rational. The product of a rational and an irrational is irrational (unless the rational is 0) The product of two irrationals can be either rational or irrational.
The product of two rational numbers, as in this example, is always RATIONAL.However, if you mean 10 x pi, pi is irrational; the product of a rational and an irrational number is ALWAYS IRRATIONAL, except for the special case in which the rational number is zero.
No. The product of sqrt(2) and sqrt(2) is 2, a rational number. Consider surds of the form a+sqrt(b) where a and b are rational but sqrt(b) is irrational. The surd has a conjugate pair which is a - sqrt(b). Both these are irrational, but their product is a2 - b, which is rational.