SOLUTION: what is multipliative invers and additive invers.

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Question 144663: what is multipliative invers and additive invers.
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multiplicative inverse: you multiply this with the original number to get 1

(x)(1/x) = 1

additive inverse: you add this with the original number to get 0

x + (-x) = 0