You multiply or divide integers just as you do whole numbers, except you must keep track of the signs. To multiply or divide signed integers, always multiply or divide the absolute values and use these rules to determine the sign of the answer.
When you multiply two integers with the same signs, the result is always positive. Just multiply the absolute values and make the answer positive.
Positive x positive = positive
Negative x negative = positive
When you multiply two integers with different signs, the result is always negative. Just multiply the absolute values and make the answer negative.
Positive x negative = negative
Negative x positive = negative
When you divide two integers with the same sign, the result is always positive. Just divide the absolute values and make the answer positive.
Positive ÷ positive = positive
Negative ÷ negative = positive
When you divide two integers with different signs, the result is always negative. Just divide the absolute values and make the answer negative.
Positive ÷ negative = negative
Negative ÷ positive = negative
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The rules are not the same.Multiplication is commutative whereas division is not.Multiplication is associative whereas division is not.
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It will be the same as dividing positives but if it is a negetive divided by a postive the answer will still be negative
positive x positive = positive negative x negative = positive positive x negative = negative negative x positive = negative The same rules apply for dividing, since dividing is actually multiplying by the reciprical.
When multiplying integers, multiplying by the same sign will always produce a positive integer. Such as a negative times a negative equals a positive. If the signs are different then the product will be a negative.
The rules are not the same.Multiplication is commutative whereas division is not.Multiplication is associative whereas division is not.
Adding integers, if they have the same sign, add their absolute values and keep the same sign. Subtracting, change the sign of the 2nd number and the add using rules of addition. Multiplying and dividing, Divide the absolute values, if the signs are the same the answer is positive, if the signs are different the answer is negative.
The rules are the same.
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It will be the same as dividing positives but if it is a negetive divided by a postive the answer will still be negative
The answer depends on which properties are being used to prove which rules.
positive x positive = positive negative x negative = positive positive x negative = negative negative x positive = negative The same rules apply for dividing, since dividing is actually multiplying by the reciprical.
When multiplying integers, multiplying by the same sign will always produce a positive integer. Such as a negative times a negative equals a positive. If the signs are different then the product will be a negative.
It wasn't necessary to 'create' any rules. They follow logically from the definition of exponents.
When multiplying something with exponents, you add it. When dividing something with exponents, you subtract it.
1. Find the value of the exponent. 2. Multiply or divide normally.