# Deletion of a question with upvoted answers

https://math.stackexchange.com/questions/414036/rationals-and-irrationals-on-the-real-number-line/ is not very well-posed, but all the answers seemed to interpret it the same way: prove that for every two irrationals $i_1 < i_2$, there is a rational $i_1 < r < i_2$. It attracted three different answers, all upvoted.

The question itself has been downvoted and closed, and now I see that it has two votes to delete. If it were deleted, the answers would be lost, which I think would be unfortunate. What can be done to prevent this?

• It looks like it's probably a duplicate of something. If you can find another question for me to merge it into, this will preserve the answers while scrapping the question.
– Alexander Gruber Mod
Jun 16, 2013 at 2:08
• It's an exact duplicate of math.stackexchange.com/questions/421580/…
– MJD
Jun 16, 2013 at 2:17
• @MJD Or of math.stackexchange.com/q/226793 which already has answers. Jun 16, 2013 at 2:18
• I will cheerfully leave the decision to the moderators.
– MJD
Jun 16, 2013 at 2:19
• In the process I found two dyadic versions of this problem, and flagged math.stackexchange.com/q/84565 as duplicate of math.stackexchange.com/q/23039 Jun 16, 2013 at 2:21