The tables shown below are examples of noncommutative, or nonabelian, groups. For each exercise, do the following.

(a) Show that the system under the given operation is a group. (It would be very time consuming to prove that the associative property holds, but give some examples to show that it appears to hold.)

(b) Determine a counterexample to show that the commutative property does not hold.

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