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The sum of a rational number and an irrational number is irrational.. By definition, an irrational number in decimal form goes on forever without repeating (a non-repeating, non-terminating decimal). By definition, a rational number in decimal form either terminates or repeats. If you add a non-repeating, non-terminating decimal to a terminating decimal, you still have a non-repeating, non-terminating decimal.
Well, irrational just means it's not rational. It means that you cannot express it as the ratio of two integers. So let's see what we have here. So we have the square root of 8 over 2. If you take the square root of a number that is not a perfect square, it is going to be irrational. And then if you just take that irrational number and you multiply it, and you divide it by any other numbers, you're still going to get an irrational number. So square root of 8 is irrational. You divide that by 2, it is still irrational. So this is not rational. Or in other words, I'm saying it is irrational. Now, you have pi, 3.14159-- it just keeps going on and on and on forever without ever repeating. So this is irrational, probably the most famous of all of the irrational numbers. 5.0-- well, I can represent 5.0 as 5/1. So 5.0 is rational. It is not irrational. 0.325-- well, this is the same thing as 325/1000.