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When a negative number is subtracted from a positive number is the difference always positive?
Yes, a negative number subtracted from a positive number will always be positive. Subtracting a negative number is the same as adding the opposite of the negative number. The opposite of a negative number is always positive. A positive number plus a positive number is always positive.
Is the opposite of a negative number always positive number?
Yes, the opposite of a negative number is always a positive number. For example, the opposite of -5 is 5, which is positive. This relationship holds true for any negative number, as the opposite simply changes the sign, resulting in a positive value.
What the meaning of opposite in maths for kids to understand?
opposites somehow like a positive number is the opposite of a negative and a negative number is the opposite of a positive
What is the opposite of a positive number?
A negative number?
What is The opposite of a negative number?
ill say a positive number
Why does two minuses equal a plus?
A negative number is the opposite of a positive number. If a positive number measures the money you have, then a negative number measures the money you owe. If you multiply two negative numbers together, you are getting the opposite of an opposite. One negative negates the other, leaving you with a positive.
Does every number have an opposite?
It depends on what you mean by an opposite. Every real number has an additive opposite but 0 does not have a multiplicative opposite.
The opposite of a negative number is?
Are you serious? A positive number.
When a number is positive?
A positive number is any number above zero. A negative number is any number below zero. Zero is not a positive or a negative number. A number's opposite is just the negative. For example: 8's opposite is -8 (negative 8). Hope this helped!
Can a positive have an opposite?
Any positive numbers opposite is the same number just as a negative.
Why is the reciprocal of the opposite of a nonzero number the opposite of the reciprocal of the number?
Taking the reciprocal (multiplicative inverse) does not affect the positive or negative status of an integer. So the reciprocal of a negative number is negative and the reciprocal of a positive number is positive. The reciprocals will be opposites (positive/negative) just as the original numbers were.
The opposite number of positive number is a negative number?
Yes, and the opposite holds true as well.
