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Say you have the number 6 and you want to find the multiplicative inverse, you're asking yourself: What number multiplied by 6 equals 1? In other words, you want to solve $\"6x=1\"$ \r
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\n" ); document.write( "\n" ); document.write( " $\"x=1%2F6\"$ Divide both sides by 6 to solve for x\r
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\n" ); document.write( "\n" ); document.write( "So the multiplicative inverse of 6 is $\"1%2F6\"$ . It turns out that the multiplicative inverse of any number, is simply the reciprocal of that number. In other words, the multiplicative inverse of $\"x\"$ is $\"1%2Fx\"$ \n" ); document.write( "

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