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Exercise 1.1: Example 5

1. This document provides examples and exercises for working with properties of mathematics including commutativity, distributivity, additive inverses, multiplicative inverses, and properties of multiplication. 2. Students are asked to use appropriate properties to simplify expressions, find additive and multiplicative inverses, verify properties for specific values, and name the properties being used in mathematical expressions. 3. The problems cover skills like simplifying expressions with integers, fractions, and variables using order of operations and properties of real numbers.

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Exercise 1.1: Example 5

1. This document provides examples and exercises for working with properties of mathematics including commutativity, distributivity, additive inverses, multiplicative inverses, and properties of multiplication. 2. Students are asked to use appropriate properties to simplify expressions, find additive and multiplicative inverses, verify properties for specific values, and name the properties being used in mathematical expressions. 3. The problems cover skills like simplifying expressions with integers, fractions, and variables using order of operations and properties of real numbers.

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14 MATHEMATICS

2 −3 1 3 3
Example 5: Find × − − ×
5 7 14 7 5
2 −3 1 3 3 2 −3 3 3 1
Solution: × − − × = × − × − (by commutativity)
5 7 14 7 5 5 7 7 5 14
2 −3  −3  3 1
= × +  × −
5 7  7  5 14
−3  2 3  1
=  + − (by distributivity)
7  5 5  14
−3 1 − 6 − 1 −1
= ×1− = =
7 14 14 2

EXERCISE 1.1
1. Using appropriate properties find.
2 3 5 3 1 2  3 1 3 1 2
(i) − × + − × (ii) × − − × + ×
3 5 2 5 6 5  7  6 2 14 5
2. Write the additive inverse of each of the following.
2 −5 −6 2 19
(i) (ii) (iii) (iv) (v)
8 9 −5 −9 −6
3. Verify that – (– x) = x for.
11 13
(i) x = (ii) x = −
15 17
4. Find the multiplicative inverse of the following.
− 13 1 − 5 −3
(i) – 13 (ii) (iii) (iv) ×
19 5 8 7
−2
(v) – 1 × (vi) – 1
5
5. Name the property under multiplication used in each of the following.
−4 −4 4 13 −2 −2 −13
(i) ×1=1× =− (ii) − × = ×
5 5 5 17 7 7 17
−19 29
(iii) × =1
29 −19
6 −7
6. Multiply by the reciprocal of .
13 16
1  4  1  4
7. Tell what property allows you to compute ×  6 ×  as  × 6 × .
3  3  3  3
8 1
8. Is the multiplicative inverse of −1 ? Why or why not?
9 8
1
9. Is 0.3 the multiplicative inverse of 3 ? Why or why not?
3

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