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It depends on whether you mean additive inverse or multiplicative inverse.
"opposite" operation. The inverse of subtraction is addition; the inverse operation of multiplication is division.
no, it means 1 divided by the number inverse of 5 is 1/5 inverse of x = 1/x
Mathematically, an inverse is an opposite, it is something that reverses what its inverse does, for example, addition and subtraction are inverse functions, as are multiplication and division. The inverse of a fraction is obtained by exchanging numerator and denominator; the inverse of a half is two.
The answer depends on what you mean by "opposite": whether it is the additive inverse or the multiplicative inverse.