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What are Inverse Operations?
What are inverse operations?
Summary
- Addition, subtraction, multiplication and division are known as 'operations'
- The black 'x' is a variable
- After adding and subtracting 7 from x, we get x back again
- You can also subtract and then add 7 and you'll still get x back again
- Addition and subtraction are inverse operations
- Multiplication and division are inverse operations
- Both the red 'X' and the red dot are multiplication symbols
- We're seeing division undo multiplication here, so they must also be inverse operations!

Notes
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- When two operations undo one another, we call them inverse operations!
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- Addition, subtraction, multiplication and division are known as 'operations'
- Before we added and subtracted the same number and ended up with what we started with
- These two operations 'undid' each other, so they are inverse operations
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- We're seeing division undo multiplication here, so they must be inverse operations!