Lauren is studying the growth patterns of a particular type of tree native to California. She has noticed that, for each week that passes during the spring, the number of leaves on the tree approximately triples. If, at the beginning of her study, the tree had
12 leaves on it, approximately how many leaves should be on the tree after 5 weeks?
OA. 972
OB. 8,748
OC. 2,916
OD. 243

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?