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Commutative Property of Rational Numbers

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Question 78
Subtraction of rational number is commutative

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False
Subtraction of rational numbers is not commutative
i.e. $a - b \neq b - a$
where, a and b are rational numbers.

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(ii) subtraction is commutative on rational numbers
(iii) addition is not commutative on rational numbers.

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