Positive integers are not closed under .............

addition

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subtraction

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multiplication

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none of these

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Solution

The correct option is B subtraction
Positive integers are numbers from $1, 2, 3, . . . .$ So, in other words, they are natural numbers. And we know that natural numbers are closed under addition and multiplication only. So, positive integers are not closed under subtraction.

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