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You can't prove this proposition because it isn't true.

Proof: the fifth root of 1024 is 4, and 4 is not irrational.

It is true that, when N is an integer greater than 1, the Nth root of any integer greater than 1 is either an integer orirrational, but that's a different matter.

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