A brand of uncooked spaghetti comes in a box that is a rectangular prism with a length of 9 inches, a width of 3 inches, and a height of 1 1/2 inches. What is the surface area?

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?