Question

Explain associative distributive communitative and closure property give two examples and try all the properties for rational numbers.​

Answer 1

Answer:

The major properties of rational numbers are:

1. Closure Property
2. Commutativity Property
3. Associative Property
4. Distributive Property

Explanation :

Properties of rational numbers

Rational means anything which is completely logical whereas irrational means anything which is unpredictable and illogical in nature. The word rational has evolved from the word ratio. In general, rational numbers are those numbers that can be expressed in the form of p/q, in which both p and q are integers and q≠0. We can denote these numbers by Q.

Closure property

For two rational numbers say x and y the results of addition, subtraction and multiplication operations give a rational number. We can say that rational numbers are closed under addition, subtraction and multiplication. For example:

(7/6)+(2/5) = 47/30

(5/6) – (1/3) = 1/2

(2/5). (3/7) = 6/35

Do you know why division is not under closure property?

The division is not under closure property because division by zero is not defined. We can also say that except ‘0’ all numbers are closed under division.

Commutative law

For rational numbers, addition and multiplication are commutative.

Commutative law of addition: a+b = b+a

Commutative law of multiplication: a×b = b×a

Commutative law example

Subtraction is not commutative property i. e. a-b ≠ b-a. This can be understood clearly with the following example

Commutative law - subtraction LHS

whereas

Commutative law - subtraction RHS

The division is also not commutative i.e. a/b ≠ b/a as,

Commutative law - Division LHS

Associative law

Rational numbers follow the associative property for addition and multiplication.

Suppose x, y and z are rational then for addition: x+(y+z)=(x+y)+z

For multiplication: x(yz)=(xy)z.

Some important properties that should be remembered are:

0 is an additive identity and 1 is a multiplicative identity for rational numbers.

For a rational number x/y, the additive inverse is -x/y and y/x is the multiplicative inverse.

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