What is the slope of the graph? (Example: 2/3,-4,-2/9)

In the polynomial below, what number should replace the question mark to produce a difference of squares? x2 + ? x - 36

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?

Astudent showed the steps below while solving the inequality |x-4|< 1 by graphing.