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Question

Study the following statements.
Statement - 1 : Rational numbers are always closed under division.
Statement - 2 : Division by zero is not defined.
Which of the following options hold?

A
Both statement - 1 and statement - 2 are true.
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Statement - 1 is true but statement -2 is false.
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Statement - 1 is false but statement -2 is true.
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Both statement - 1 and statement - 2 are false.
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Solution

The correct option is B Statement - 1 is false but statement -2 is true.
Statement 1: Rational number can even be simply integers which can be further represented as pq form. So, statement 1 is false.
Statement 2: Any number divided by 0 is not defined. So, statement 2 is true.

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