Math: Middle School: Grades 6, 7 and 8 Quiz - Numbers - Negatives - Multiplication and Division (Answers)
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Did you know that two negatives make a positive? In Math, multiplying and dividing negative numbers is like normal multiplication and division. All you need to remember is that two like signs (both + or -) give a positive result, whereas two unlike signs (one + and the other -) give a negative result.
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BOTH numbers are negative, therefore the result will be positive
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One negative and one positive number equals a negative result
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It gets a little more complicated when there are more than two numbers involved!
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Note that although the first two negative signs become positive (-4 x -4 = 16), when multiplied by the third negative sign the result will be negative
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Most calculators have a '+/-' button which gives a negative number
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