Question 120692
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}}}


{{{x=1/6}}} Divide both sides by 6 to solve for x



So the multiplicative inverse of 6 is {{{1/6}}}. 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/x}}}