SOLUTION: Show, using 3 numerical examples, that the set of irrational numbers are not closure with respect to addition.

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Question 1124463: Show, using 3 numerical examples, that the set of irrational numbers are not closure with respect to addition.
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Show, using 3 numerical examples, that the set of irrational numbers is not closed with respect to addition.
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In the following lines, first addend is an irrational number; the second addend is an irrational number, too;

but the sum is a rational number:


     +  = 1;


     +  = 8;


     +  = .


These are 3 examples that you want.


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