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Challenge 133: Irrational Combinations

Can you prove that there is way to pick numbers such that the following expressions are always irrational?

If a, b, c, d, e and are six different irrational numbers, will it always be possible to pick a group of three of them, say a, b and c, so that each of the values

                    a + b,         b + c,         + a

are also irrational?

Justify your answer.