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OpenStudy (anonymous):

how to find multiplicative inverse

OpenStudy (solomonzelman):

multiplicative inverse is whatever makes a number into one, like multiplicative inverse of x is x/1.

OpenStudy (solomonzelman):

Lets say you had to find a multiplicative inverse of 4. you can say \[4~\times ~ a~=1\]\[a=1/4~~~~or~~~~~~.25\]

OpenStudy (solomonzelman):

you put it over one basically.

OpenStudy (unklerhaukus):

*multiplicative inverse of x is 1/x.

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