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Why do interests rates on loans to be lower in a weak economy than in a strong one

Assume that 1400 births are randomly selected and 1378 of the births are girls. use subjective judgment to describe the number of girls as significantly high, significantly low, or neither significantly low nor significantly high. choose the correct answer below. a. the number of girls is neither significantly low nor significantly high. b. the number of girls is significantly high. c. the number of girls is significantly low. d. it is impossible to make a judgment with the given information.

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?