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Sketch the Cartesian product on the x-y plane R^2: Zx Z.

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Answer:[tex]\mathbb{Z}\times \mathbb{Z}=\{(a,b)\lvert a, b\in \mathbb{Z}\}[/tex]Step-by-step explanation:In general, the Cartesian product of two sets [tex]A,B[/tex] is a new set defined by[tex]A\times B=\{(a,b)\lvert a\in A,b\in B\}[/tex]The pair [tex](a,b)[/tex] is ordered pair because the order is important, that is to say, in general [tex](a,b)\neq (b,a)[/tex].One of the most important Cartesian products in mathematics is [tex]\mathbb{R}\times \mathbb{R}=\{(x,y) \lvert x,y \in \mathbb{R}\}[/tex] which is precisely the Cartesian Plane xy. The set [tex]\mathbb{Z}\times \mathbb{Z}[/tex] is a subset of [tex]\mathbb{R}\times \mathbb{R}[/tex] which is the set of all the points in the Cartesian plane whose coordinates are integers numbers. So, sketching the set [tex]\mathbb{Z}\times \mathbb{Z}[/tex] we have a picture as the shown below.