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  • 04-03-2021
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What is the multiplicative inverse of y?

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sqdancefan
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  • 10-03-2021

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Answer:

  1/y

Step-by-step explanation:

The multiplicative inverse of an expression is its reciprocal. It is the value that, when multiplied by the original, give a product of 1 (the multiplicative identity element).

Here, that is ...

  1/y

because (y)(1/y) = y/y = 1.

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Additional comment

Zero (0) does not have a multiplicative inverse.

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