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Bill heard that in “The Hall of Operations”, there was another ancient temple, named “The Reciprocus”.

Legend says that when an occupant, say “a”, of the “House of Rational Numbers, Q” enters the temple, it exits the temple as a different occupant, “b”,belonging to the same house. Bill observed that, these occupants “a” and “b”, when they enter the hall of multiplication, they exit the hall as “1”.

Bill realized that the numerical counterparts of a and b (Earth 1) are ___________ of each other.


A

Additive Inverses

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B

Multiplicative Inverses

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C

Reciprocals

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Identities

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Solution

The correct options are
B

Multiplicative Inverses


C

Reciprocals


As a and b when multiplied together give 1, they are multiplicative inverses of each other. They are also called as reciprocals of each other.

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