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Glencoe Math: Course 2, Volume 2

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Exercise 9 Page 386

What effect does adding 0 to a number have on the number?

Additive Identity

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To identify the property shown by the given equation, we should first identify the operation being performed.

8x + 0 = 8x In this case, the terms are being added, and one of the terms is 0. Because addition of 0 to a real number has no effect on the value of the number, 0 is known as the additive identity. This means that the given equation demonstrates the Additive Identity property.

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