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Anywhere where negative quantities exist.

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Q: Where would you use a negative rational number?
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When do you use a negative rational number?

You use a negative rational number when an answer is below zero.


When do you use a negative numbers?

You use a negative rational number when an answer is below zero.


A negative integer and a rational number?

Placing a question mark at the end of a phrase does not make it a sensible question. Try to use a whole sentence to describe what it is that you want answered. There are many arithmetical operations that can combine a negative integer and a rational number.


How do you use negative rational numbers?

Negative rational numbers are used in the same way that negative whole numbers are used: they are simply the additive inverses of their positive counterparts.


Is the circumference of a compact disk an irrational number rational number an integer or whole number or natural number?

it is a whole number, and not an integer because you cannot have a negative circumference.


How do you Use absolute value to write definition of the opposite of a nonzero rational number?

I would do it that way.


Would you use a positive or negative number to represent the velocity of a descending hot-air balloon?

I don't think velocity can be a negative number... Use positive.


How do you find the rational form of a negative fraction?

To write something in rational form means to write it as a fraction. If you are given a negative number in the form of a fraction, it is already in rational form. If you are given a decimal and wish to turn it into a fraction, just use 10, 100, etc as the denominator. In the case of a repeating decimal there is a method but that's another question!


What use are negative fractions?

Negative fractions are rational numbers less than 0. In life, if a trend is decreasing (for example, sales at a restaurant, obesity rates, etc), it's rate of decrease would be portrayed as negative.


Are exponents rational numbers?

You can use any number - rational or otherwise - as an exponent.


How do you use a positive number to get a negative number?

Multiply the positive number by any negative number and it will result in a negative number.


What election use rational numbers?

I would hope all elections use rational numbers: all Counting numbers are Rational numbers.