Activity 1.

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PROPERTIES OF REAL NUMBERS
CLOSURE
Directions: A set of numbers and an operation possess a property called closure. The
set is set to be closure under that operation if the result of the operation in the numbers
of the set is always a member of the original set.
A. Is each set closed under addition? Write Yes or No. If no, give example.
1. Odd whole numbers
2. Even whole numbers
3. The factors of 36
4. The multiples of 5
5. All fractions
6. Fractions less than 1

B. Is each set closed under multiplication? Write Yes or No. If no, give example.
7. All whole numbers
8. All fractions
9. A set whose elements are only -1, 0, and 1.

C. Is the set of fractions less than 1 closed under each operation? Write Yes or No.
If no, give example.
10. Addition
11. Subtraction
12. Multiplication
13. Division

D. Is the set of fractions greater than 1 closed under each operation? Write Yes or
No. If no, give example.
14. Addition
15. Subtraction
16. Multiplication
17. Division

E. Is each set closed under division? Write Yes or No. If no, give example.
18. All fractions
19. The whole numbers excluding 0
20. The fractions excluding 0