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"opposite" operation. The inverse of subtraction is addition; the inverse operation of multiplication is division.
Informally, many people would call the opposites. But the correct math term is inverse operations. Addition is the inverse operation of subtraction and multiplication if the inverse operation of division.
It is a second operation that "undoes" the first.For example, the inverse of "add 2" is "subtract 2";the inverse of "divide by 7" is "multiply by 7";the inverse of "take the reciprocal" is "take the reciprocal".
3020 is a number, not an operation. A number cannot have an inverse operation.
Addition is the inverse operation of subtraction and multiplication is the inverse operation of division. The word inverse means "opposite".