The height of an ice sculpture is 5 feet before it starts to melt. As the ice sculpture melts, its height decreases by 0.5 foot per hour. Write an equation to represent the height of the ice sculpture (y), in feet, based on the amount of time (x), in hours, since it started to melt?

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?