Negative X Times Positive X

A positive times a positive is a positive.

Negative x times positive x. Any negative times a positive will get you a negative answer. Lets say you substitute 2 in for x. A positive x is just a normal x and when you deduct a normal number x from anything it gets more negative. A negative and a positive make a.

With two x s the answer is x 2 x squared also keep in mind when multiplying two x s or y s or any variables it will always be that variable squared. A positive times a negative is a negative. Multiplying integers is fairly simple if you remember the following rule. If you look at it on the number line walking backwards while facing in the negative direction you move in the positive direction.

Xerxes 45 xerxes 45 meson. He takes 2 paces at a time and does this three times so he moves 2 steps x 3 6 steps forward. So x times x x 2. Interpreting negative times a positive and negative times negative.

Link to post share on other sites. Negative two times zero anything times zero needs to be equal to zero but then once again we can distribute negative two times six so we get negative two times six then plus negative two times negative six plus negative two times negative six then once again all of this is going to be equal to zero now based on the five experiment we just did we said well this needs to be equal to. If both integers are either positive or negative the total will always be a positive number. 3 x 2 6.

For example 2 times left 3 right can be read as two groups of negative three and so is computed as 2 times left 3 right 3 3 6. 12 700 8 400. We can represent removes by a negative number and figure out the answer by multiplying. In this case the result is 2x.

A negative times a negative is a positive. His dad puts him back at the start and then steven steps backwards 2 steps. Two negatives make a positive so a negative number times a negative number makes a positive number. 2 x 2 4.

The answer is 4 x 2 8. Now baby steven can also step backwards he is a clever little guy. Using piles and holes this looks like. A negative number times a negative number equals a positive number.

But i had difficulty understanding why a negative times a positive couldn t be either a negative or a positive answer. If one thinks of multiplication as grouping then we have made a positive group by taking away a negative number twelve times.