Table of Contents
- 1 Why is the negative number 3 negative?
- 2 What is the product of 3 negative integer?
- 3 Why does a negative number multiplied by a negative number equal a positive number?
- 4 How do you add three negative numbers?
- 5 What is the product of 3 negative and a positive integer?
- 6 Is the product of three negative numbers positive or negative?
Why is the negative number 3 negative?
Answer: ) The product of three negative integers is a negative integer. (iii) Of the two integers, if one is negative, then their product must be positive. (iv) For all non-zero integers aandb,a×b is always greater than either aorb.
What is the product of 3 negative integer?
negative integer
Product of three negative integers is a negative integer.
Why does a negative number multiplied by a negative number equal a positive number?
Each number has an “additive inverse” associated to it (a sort of “opposite” number), which when added to the original number gives zero. The fact that the product of two negatives is a positive is therefore related to the fact that the inverse of the inverse of a positive number is that positive number back again.
Does 3 negatives make a positive?
Rule 3: A negative number times a negative number, equals a positive number.
What is the greatest negative integer?
-1
The greatest negative integer is -1.
How do you add three negative numbers?
When you are adding a negative number to a negative number, it becomes subtraction, where you start from a negative point on the numbers line and move left. For example, -3 + (-2). This reads “negative three plus negative 2”.
What is the product of 3 negative and a positive integer?
Answer: Product of 3 negative integers is negative integer. And product of 2 positive integers is positive integer itself, it’s easy.
Is the product of three negative numbers positive or negative?
the product of three negative integers is always negative because we if we will multiply three negative integers it will be make it negative but if we multiply two negative integers it will make a positive integer !
Why do 2 negative numbers make a positive?
When you have two negative signs, one turns over, and they add together to make a positive. If you have a positive and a negative, there is one dash left over, and the answer is negative.
How do you prove negative times negative is a positive?
Using the fact multiplication is commutative, a negative times a positive is also negative. Similarly, we can prove that a negative times a negative is a positive. Since we know that −ab is negative, and the sum of these two terms is 0, therefore (−a) × (−b) is positive.