The length of the longer side of a rectangle is 2 in. less than twice the length of the shorter side. The area of the rectangle is 60 square inches. What is the difference between the lengths of the longer and shorter sides?

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?

Reagan lives five miles farther from school than vanessa lives. write an expression to describe how far reagan lives from school

22. catie is starting a babysitting business. she spent $26 to make signs to advertise. she charges an initial fee of $5 and then $3 for each hour of service. write and solve an inequality to find the number of hours she will have to babysit to make a profit. interpret the solution.!