SOLUTION: Tell whether true or false. Division of of whole numbers is associative.

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Question 95848: Tell whether true or false.
Division of of whole numbers is associative.

Answer by kev82(148) About Me  (Show Source):
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Hi,

This sounds to me like something immensly hard to prove to be true, and as a general rule, if it sounds really hard to prove true, then chances are it's false.

To show something as false, all we need to do is find one counter-example. The first numbers that come into my head when looking for an example are 1, 2, and 3.

(1/2)/3 = 1/6

1/(2/3) = 3/2

Kev