Scenario: Girod’s taxicab company charges a flat rate of $3.00 plus $1.50 for every mile traveled. Write an equation to represent the relationship between the miles traveled and total cost of the fare. Be sure to define the variables you use.

1- what do you think the product of a nonzero rational number and an irrational number is? is it rational or irrational? make use of variables, the closure property of integers, and possibly a proof by contradiction to prove your hypothesis.2- why do we have to specify that the rational number must be nonzero when we determine what the product of a nonzero rational number and an irrational number is? if the rational number were 0, would it give us the same result we found in the first question?