can you explain in words for me to understand, additive identity, additive inverse, associative property, commutative property, distributive property, multiplicative identity, and multiplicative inverse.

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anonymous · Answer

commutative property of add ition refers to how you can swop over the numbers,letters
eg a + b = b + a
commutative of multiplication  eg ab = ba

anonymous · Answer

distributive property is illusstrated by

x ( 2 + y) = 2x + xy

anonymous · Answer

Are u trying to establish the axiomatic structure applicable to numbers or are u more interested in group theory generally.

PROPERLY understanding all those things is more than a post or two in here, I'm afraid.

anonymous · Answer

i am just looking for a basic explination of all of those for my notes. My teacher gave us long definitions that i can hardly understand.

jimmyrep; Thankyouu!:)

anonymous · Answer

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Number_system#Natural_numbers

anonymous · Answer

Thankyouu!