
A Transition to Advanced Mathematics
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ISBN: 9781285463261
Author: Douglas Smith, Maurice Eggen, Richard St. Andre
Publisher: Cengage Learning
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Chapter 2.1, Problem 1E
The Cayley tables for operations
- Which of the operations are commutative?
- Which of the operations are associative?
- Which systems have an identity? What is the identity element?
- For those systems that have an identity, which elements have inverses?
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A Transition to Advanced Mathematics
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