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A kitchen-garden bed has two parts A and B with the measurements shown (in metres). Using , find the total area of the bed.

Class 8Rational NumbersRational Numbers
  • A
  • B
  • C
  • D

Step-by-Step Solution

Area . (Forgetting to multiply part B gives 1; adding all three lengths gives )
Answer: D)

Key idea: Closure of rationals

Rationals are **closed under addition, subtraction, and multiplication** — the result is always rational.

But **division is closed only if you exclude division by 0**: for any rationals a and b ≠ 0, a ÷ b is rational.

This is more than integers (which weren't closed under division at all) and more than fractions (which sometimes had subtraction lead outside the fractions). Rationals form the smallest 'nice' number system that supports all four basic operations (with the 0-divisor exception).

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