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icating any part of this book is prohibited by law. Solve. 18. EXPLAIN Farzana knows that the additive identity property states that adding 0 to a number results in the same number. She reasons that the multiplicative identity property probably states that multiplying a number by O results in the same number. Is she correct? Explain.​

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No, since when you multiply a number by 0, that means you are not adding that number to the sum which is 0. Since there is no addition going on, the answer is 0, so when you multiply any number by 0, the answer is 0.

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