Prove that if $y$ is rational and $x$ is irrational, then $y + x$ and $yx$ (assume y $\neq 0 $) is irrational.
I kinda guessed the proof and it turned out to be right with the key, but it doesn't answer my question. Here is my quick and dirty proof
Assume $x + y$ is rational such that $x + y = r$ ($r$ is rational), then $x + y = r \iff x = r - y \iff x = r + (-y)$ But this is a contradiction since $\mathbb{Q}$ is closed under addition.
Q1. Okay so I showed that by contradiction that my claim is wrong, but showing that something isn't doesn't tell us what the original thing was now does it? Or does this work because rational and irrational are polar opposites and I don't need to fill in?
The proof for multiplication is similar:
Assume $xy$ is rational such that $xy = r$ ($r$ is rational), then $xy = r \iff x = r/y$ But this is a contradiction since $\mathbb{Q}$ is closed under division