(a) Prove that a*b=a+b-a-b is an operation on the set S = R\{1}. (Show that, if a*b = 1, then one of a or b must be 1, which means this is not an input value for *.) (b) Prove that (S, *) is an abelian group. (Hint: Its identity element is e = 0 and a¹ = a/(a - 1).) -1

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