Last year the mean cost μ for a one-bedroom rental in a certain city was $1,200 per month. Eli is looking for a one-bedroom apartment and is investigating whether the mean cost is less now than what it was last year. A random sample of apartments had a sample mean x¯ of $1,180 per month. Assuming all conditions for inference are met, Eli will conduct a hypothesis test as part of his investigation.

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?