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Is decimal number greater than a negative number?
Positive numbers are greater than negative numbers. Decimals can be either positive or negative.
What does negative and positive mean?
A positive number is greater than zero; a negative number is less than zero.
Can a negative number be greater than a positive number?
No. All positive numbers are greater than zero and all negative numbers are less than zero. Therefore, all positive numbers are greater than all negative numbers. That said, there is a such thing as absolute value, which is how far a number is from zero. For example the absolute value of -10 is 10. The absolute value of a negative number can be greater than that of a positive number.
How do you decide which number is greater when one number is negative and one number is positive?
ANY positive number is greater than any negative number. Imagine you are digging a hole, and piling up the dirt you remove from the hole. The hole represents negative numbers- it goes lower than the surface. The piled up dirt represents positive numbers- it is higher than the surface. The surface is zero- neither positive or negative.
What negative or positive number is less than negative 20.00 but greater than negative 21.00?
-20.5
