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What does the zero mean on the number line?
The separater to make the negative and positive numbers opposites?
Why does a negative number multiplied by a negative number equals a positive number?
This is NOT a proof, just an explanation. Imagine you are on a number line and you are walking. Multiplying x*y is taking x steps, each of size y. Negative steps are interpreted by requriring you to face the negative end of the line before you start walking and negative step sizes are backward where backward is heel first. This mean to find, -x*-y you stand on zero, face in the negative direction, and then take x backward steps, each of size y.
What does it mean for a line to have a negative slope?
If a line has a negative slope it is going 'down hill' and if it has a positive slope it is going 'up hill'
When a number in a fraction is negative does that mean that the whole fraction is negative?
Yes, it does.
What does the - sign mean before a number?
It means that the number is negative. Negative numbers are always under 0.
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