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they are added, the result is the zero vector. In other words, v + (-v) = 0 = (-v) + v. In the case of ℝ², given a vector v = (a, b), we can take advantage of the fact that a and b are real numbers and already have their additive inverses in this set, which are -a and -b, respectively. This allows