The recipe for cooking long grain brown rice calls for 5 parts water to 4 parts long-grain rice. To cook short grain brown rice, a recipe calls for 3 parts water to 2 parts short grain rice. Maurice has three
cups of long-grain brown rice and three cups of short grain brown rice. Which type of rice requires more
water to cook all of each type of rice? How much more?

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?