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What are the Multiplicative and Additive Identities of Rational Numbers?

BY Team Aakash Byju's

Rational Numbers

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A number that can be expressed in the "p/q" form, where p and q are integers and q≠0 is a rational number.

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The set of Rational numbers is represented by the  letter "Q."

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A rational number can be either negative, zero, or positive.

Additive Identity of a Rational Number

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The definition states that when we add any number to zero, it gives the result as the number itself.  "0" is called the additive identity of a rational number.

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Example Of  ADDITIVE IDENTITY of a Rational Number.

Multiplicative Identity of a Rational number

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The definition states that when we multiply any number with one, it gives the result as the number itself.

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Example of MULTIPLICATIVE IDENTITY of a Rational Number.

"1" is known as the multiplicative identity of rational numbers.