Thinking Mathematically (6th Edition)

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Chapter 5 - Number Theory and the Real Number System - 5.5 Real Numbers and Their Properties; Clock Addition - Exercise Set 5.5 - Page 309: 59

Answer

(a) As, \[\left( d\ \square \ e \right)=c\], thus \[\begin{align} & e\ \vartriangle \ \left( c\ \square \ d \right)=c\ \vartriangle \ c \\ & =e \end{align}\] Now, find RHS as, \[\begin{align} & \left( c\ \vartriangle \ d \right)\ \square \ \left( c\ \Delta \ e \right)=b\ \square \ d \\ & =e \end{align}\] Hence, \[e\ \vartriangle \ \left( c\ \square \ d \right)=\left( e\ \vartriangle \ c \right)\ \square \ \left( e\ \Delta \ d \right)\]. (b) As, \[c\ \vartriangle \ \left( d\ \square \ e \right)=\left( c\ \vartriangle \ d \right)\ \square \ \left( c\ \Delta \ e \right)\]and\[c\]is distributed over \[\left( d\ \square \ e \right)\]. Thus, distributive property is used. Hence, the distributive property is used in \[c\ \vartriangle \ \left( d\ \square \ e \right)=\left( c\ \vartriangle \ d \right)\ \square \ \left( c\ \Delta \ e \right)\].
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