Question

TASK 4 A friend has asked you to explain commutative properties to him. After you explain the commutative properties for addition and multiplication, he asks you about commutative properties for subtraction and division. a. Use examples to show that the operations of subtraction and division are not commutative. b. For your example that shows subtraction is not commutative, rewrite it as addition so that the order of the terms can be changed without affecting the result.

Answer 1

Let us first try to give an example of substraction

`8-5=3`

But

`5-8=5+-8=-8+5=-3`

and

`-3\\e3`

For the division we get

`(8)/(4)=2`

but

`(4)/(8)=(1)/(2)`