Question

The product of two whole numbers is zero. What do you conclude?

Answer 1

Hint: Here, we are using the set of whole numbers. The whole number includes numbers such as 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, and so on till infinity.

Complete step-by-step answer:
Given, the two numbers\[a\] and \[b\] are whole numbers and their product \[ab = 0\]
Now, we know the set of all whole numbers is given by \[\{ 0,1,2,3,......\} \]
Now in order to have the product equal to zero,
 we conclude that one of the following conditions is being satisfied which are given below
1) \[a = 0\]and \[b \ne 0\]
2) \[a \ne 0\]and \[b = 0\]
3) \[a\] and \[b\] are both equal to \[0\]
Therefore, the conditions 1), 2) and 3) as stated above are the required conclusions.

Note: If the product of two whole numbers is zero, then one of them is definitely zero. If the product of whole numbers is zero, then both of them may be zero.