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Question: What is an Identity Element ?

Answer:

An identity element is an element which when combined with another element does not change it.

For example, 0 is the identity element for addition of numbers because, when a is any number,
0 + a = a and a + 0 = a
1 is the identity element for multiplication of numbers because 1 x a = a and a x 1 = a.