Question

State whether the statement is true or false

Natural Numbers are commutive in subtraction.

• A. True
• B. False

Answer 1

The correct option is B False

To check whether Natural Numbers are commutive in subtraction:

If $aandb$are two natural numbers.

Then according to commutative property

$a-b=b-a$

But $a-b$ is not always equal to $b-a$

For example , if $a=1andb=2$then,

$1-2=-1and2-1=1$

This shows that natural Numbers are not commutive in subtraction.

Therefore , the statement is false