What do you know about Squares?

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Let the set consisting of the squares of the positive integers be called u ; thus u is the set 1,4,9, .... If a certain operation on one or more members of the set always yields a member of the set, we say that the set is closed under that operation. Then u is closed under:

division multiplication none of these extraction of a positive integral root

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The set consists of all possible positive perfect squares.Let an integer be a a .Then it's square will be a 2 a^2 and let a second integer be b b .Then it's square will be b 2 b^2 .Both of these are integers which are present in the set u u .Then: a 2 × b 2 = a × a × b × b = ( a × b ) × ( a × b ) = a b × a b = ( a b ) 2 a^2\times b^2\\=a\times a\times b\times b\\=(a\times b)\times(a\times b)\\=ab\times ab=(ab)^2 And as a a and b b are integers so a b ab is an integer so ( a b ) 2 (ab)^2 is an integer which is present in the set.So the set u u is closed under M u l t i p l i c a t i o n \boxed{Multiplication}

Nice solution.

Soumo Mukherjee - 6 years, 5 months ago

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Can you give me an example to prove that this set is not closed under division?

Omkar Kulkarni - 6 years, 3 months ago

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Take the 2nd and 3rd members. 9 divided by 4 is 2.25, which is not a square of an integer.

Benny Varghese - 6 years, 1 month ago
Edwin Gray
Aug 29, 2018

(x^2)*(y^2) = (xy)^2. Ed Gray

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