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  • Aug 11, 2010, 05:05 PM
    waipahu2student
    If you add a positive to a negative what do you get?
    I need help with all possible questions such as subtracting, dividing, and multiplying.
  • Aug 11, 2010, 05:16 PM
    yesbeckjs
    It depends on what you are adding together.

    For example: 3 + (-2) = 1 since this can be thought of as: 3 - 2 = 1.

    Another example: 2 + (-3) = -1, we can use the same logic to think of this as: 2 - 3 = -1

  • Aug 11, 2010, 11:47 PM
    morgaine300

    Do books use number lines anymore. If you do it with a number line in front of you, this should make sense - adding is going to the right on the line.
  • Aug 12, 2010, 01:56 PM
    ebaines

    To answer the question regading multiplication and division:

    a. positive times positive = positive
    b. positive times negative = negative
    c. negative times positive = negative
    d. negative times negative = positive

    From this you can see that the following is true:

    a. positivie divided by positive = positive
    b. positive divided by negative = negative
    c. Negative divided by positive = negative
    d. Negative divided by negative = positive.
  • Aug 14, 2010, 12:51 AM
    waipahu2student

    thanks you guys for the answers and stuff cause I'm in 9th grade and I have to do matrices with integers and fractions together so its really irritating
  • Aug 23, 2010, 11:21 PM
    morgaine300

    You mean what's a number line? They seriously don't teach that in school anymore? No wonder people are so lost on that kind of stuff -- they don't teach visuals anymore. We can make pictures of math and it's way easier to understand, but no one ever does it anymore.

    I was just talking about the examples yesbeckjs did, and nothing to do with matrices. (Matrices in 9th grade seems a little on the advanced side.)

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