Positive Rational Numbers are Closed under Addition

Theorem
Let $\Q_{\ge 0}$ denote the set of positive rational numbers:
 * $\Q_{\ge 0} := \set {x \in \Q: x \ge 0}$

where $\Q$ denotes the set of rational numbers.

Then the algebraic structure $\struct {\Q_{\ge 0}, +}$ is closed in the sense that:
 * $\forall a, b \in \Q_{\ge 0}: a + b \in \Q_{\ge 0}$

where $+$ denotes rational addition.

Proof
Let $a$ and $b$ be expressed in canonical form:
 * $a = \dfrac {p_1} {q_1}, b = \dfrac {p_2} {q_2}$

where $p_1, p_2 \in \Z$ and $q_1, q_2 \in \Z_{>0}$.

As $\forall a, b \in \Q_{\ge 0}$ it follows that:
 * $p_1, p_2 \in \Z_{\ge 0}$

By definition of rational addition:


 * $\dfrac {p_1} {q_1} + \dfrac {p_2} {q_2} = \dfrac {p_1 q_2 + p_2 q_1} {q_1 q_2}$

From Integers form Ordered Integral Domain, it follows that: