katelyns previous water meter reading was 1,456 ccf. The present is reading 2,962 ccf. How much water did katelyn use ?

Fabian harvests 10 pounds of tomatoes from his garden. he needs 225 pounds to make a batch of soup. if he sets aside 2.8 pounds of tomatoes to make spaghetti sauce, how many batches of soup can fabian make?

When you answer this can you explain

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?