In this problem you are given that
,
and
are natural numbers.
You have to show that if
is rational then it is a natural
number.
You could use the fact that if
is rational then so is its
square which means that
is also rational.
Knowing this the next step is to use
to show that
is rational and to do likewise for
.
This is all you need because it has been proved that if
is
rational then
must be a square number.
See the problem The
Root Cause .
Try to apply this method and then to extend it to three variables for the
last part.