Can someone be my algebra 2 buddy. (: I will be so thankful!

Orly uses 2 cups of raisins for every 12 cups of trail mix she makes. how many cups of trail mix will she make if she uses 8 cups of raisins?

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?

Aproduction manager test 10 toothbrushes and finds that their mean lifetime is 450 hours. she then design sales package of this type of toothbrush. it states that the customers can expect the toothbrush to last approximately 460 hours. this is an example of what phase of inferential statistics