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RELATIONS AND FUNCTIONS — Maths STD 12 Science — Question

Gujarat BoardEnglish MediumSTD 12 ScienceMathsRELATIONS AND FUNCTIONS2 Marks
Question
Let $'o'$ be a binary operation on the set $Q_0$ of all non-zero rational numbers defined by $\text{a}\ ^*\ \text{b}=\frac{\text{ab}}{2}$ for all $\text{a},\text{b}\in\text{Q}_0.$
Show that $'o'$ is both commutative and associate.
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Answer

We have, $\text{a }^*\text{ b}=\frac{\text{ab}}{2}$ for all $\text{a},\text{b}\in\text{Q}_0$
Commutativity:
Let $\text{a},\text{b}\in\text{Q}_0,$ then
$\Rightarrow\text{a }^*\text{ b}=\frac{\text{ab}}{2}=\frac{\text{ba}}{2}=\text{a }^*\text{ b}$
$\Rightarrow\text{a }^*\text{ b}=\text{b }^*\text{ a}$
 Thus, $*$ is commutative on $Q_0.$
Associativity:
Let $\text{a},\text{b},\text{c}\in\text{Q}_0,$ then
$\Rightarrow(\text{a }^*\text{ b})\ ^*\ \text{c}=\frac{\text{ab}}{2}\ ....(1)$ and,
$\text{a }^*\ (\text{b }^*\text{ c})=\text{a }^*\ \frac{\text{bc}}{2}=\frac{\text{abc}}{4}\ ....(2)$ From $(1)\ \&\ (2)$
$(\text{a }^*\text{ b})\ ^*\ \text{c}=\text{a }^*\ (\text{b }^*\text{ c})$
$ \Rightarrow * $ is accosiative on $Q_0.$

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