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True expression for an associative or commutative operation

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4/19/2013
Let ∗* be an operation, assigning a real number a * b to each pair of real numbers (a,b)(a, b). Find an equation which is true (for all possible values of variables) provided the operation ∗* is commutative or associative and which can be false otherwise.