Answer :
To find: (i)
LCM of 12 and 16
Prime factorizing 12 and 16 we get.
20 = 22 × 3
16 = 24
⇒ LCM of 20 and 16 = 24 × 3 = 48
(ii) To find LCM highest power of each prime factor has been taken from both the numbers and multiplied.
So it is irrelevant in which order the number are taken as their prime factors will remain the same.
So LCM(a,b) = LCM(b,a)
So * is commutative.
(iii)let xN and x*1 = lcm(x,1) = x = lcm(1,x)
1 is the identity element.
(iv)let there exist y in n such that x*y = e = y*x
Here e = 1,
Lcm(x,y) = 1
This happens only when x = y = 1.
1 is the invertible element of n with respect to *.
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