Michael was asked to give examples of the identity property of addition and the identity property of multiplication. below are his answers.

identity property of addition: 8 + 1 = 8

identity property of multiplication: 8(0) = 0

what was michael’s mistake?

he should have added 0 to 8 and multiplied 1 by 8.
he should have 8 + 1 = 9.
he should have 8(0) = 8.
he should have distributed the 8.