Quotient Ring multiplication

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Please help I’m very confused about this. If $[r]$ and $[s]$ are two cosets of the set $R/A$ (Where $A$ is an ideal of the ring $R$) why are we allowed to define $[r]*[s]=[rs]$ when we only know that $[r]*[s]$ is a subset of $[rs]$?