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GR9768 Question # 57

Posted: Mon Feb 18, 2008 7:03 am
by mobius70
Let R be field of real numbers and R[x] the ring of polynomials in x with coefficients in R. Which of the following subsets of R[x] is a subring of R?

I) All polynomials whose coefficient of x is zero.
II) All polynomials whose degree is even integer, together with zero polynomial.
III) All polynomials whose coefficient are rational numbers.

THE ANSWER SAYS ONLY I AND III ARE CORRECT.
I DON'T GET WHY II IS NOT CORRECT.

--ITS COMPLETE IN ADDITION
--ITS ASSOCIATIVE
--IT HAS IDENTITY ELEMENT ZERO
--FOR EVERY POLYNOMIAL THERE IS AN ADDITIVE INVERSE WHICH WILL ALSO HAVE EVEN DEGREE
--ALSO ADDITION IS ABLIAN
--ITS COMPLETE IN MULTIPLICATION
--ITS ASSOCIATIVEI IN MULTIPLICATION

Posted: Tue Feb 19, 2008 2:57 pm
by lime
Make it easy! :wink:
--ITS ASSOCIATIVE
--IT HAS IDENTITY ELEMENT ZERO
--FOR EVERY POLYNOMIAL THERE IS AN ADDITIVE INVERSE WHICH WILL ALSO HAVE EVEN DEGREE
--ALSO ADDITION IS ABLIAN
--ITS COMPLETE IN MULTIPLICATION
--ITS ASSOCIATIVE IN MULTIPLICATION
Those are all correct.
--ITS COMPLETE IN ADDITION
That is wrong!! It is not closed under addition:

Two polynomials x^2 and -x^2+x are both of even degree = 2. But their sum
(x^2) + (-x^2 + x) = x
is of degree 1.

Posted: Wed Feb 20, 2008 1:19 am
by mobius70
Thx lime ..
You seem to be good here .. :->
just out of curosity ..are you going for some GRE or soemthing