Need an answer fast sam said the square root of a rational number must be a rational number. jenna disagreed. she said that it is possible that the square root of a rational number can be irrational. who is correct and why? -jenna is correct because all square roots are irrational numbers. -sam is correct because all square roots of rational numbers are rational. an example is (square root of 121 = 11) -jenna is correct because not all square roots are rational. an example is (square root of 2 =1.414213) -sam is correct because the properties of square roots state that the square root of a rational number is a rational number.