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What is a negative number plus a negative number?
a negative number. think banking..... no money plus no money is ? Nothing (negative) "no money" would be zero, wouldn't it? Zero, or "nothing", is not negative. Still, a negative number plus a negative number is a negative number. minus X plus minus Y equals minus(X + Y).
What does 5 to negative 2 power equal?
it equals 1/25, or 0.04. A number to a negative power is the reciprocal of the number to that same positive power. x^(-y) = 1/(x^y)
Explain different ways it is possible to add two rational numbers to get a negative number?
Let x and y be two rational numbers. If both x and y are negative then their sum will be negative.If only one of them, say x, is positive (so that y is negative), and if the absolute value (or magnitude) of y is greater than x then their sum will be negative.
Are rational number is a fraction sometimes always or never?
Rational numbers can always be expressed as fractions.
What is the meaning positive rational numbers?
Any number that can be expressed as the ratio x/y where x and y are both positive integers. [Technically, they could both be negative, but not one of each.]
