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How do you find the additive and multiplicative inverse of -11?

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Apr 21, 2017

See explanation.

Explanation:

The additive inverse of a number is a number that when added to the original number will equal $0$ $0$ .

The additive inverse of $- 11$ $-11$ is $11$ $11$ .

$- 11 + 11 = 0$ $-11+11=0$

The multiplicative inverse is a number that when multiplied by the original number will equal $1$ $1$ .

The multiplicative inverse of $- 11$ $-11$ is $- \frac{1}{11}$ $-1/11$ .

$- 11 \times - \frac{1}{11} = 1$ $-11xx-1/11=1$

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