Take a simple multiplication question such as 2x3
It mean that there are 2 groups and these groups each have 3 things in them (or 3 groups each with 2 things)
So you add the groups up and get 6
Now if you have 2x-3 you have 2 groups and they each have -3 things in them. You add all the negatives 3s up just like you did in the last question and have -6.
It is difficult to imagine -3 things or -6 things, so just think of multiplying by a negative will reverse the sign (kind of like reversing the polarity of battery terminals). So if you reverse them one time (negative X positive) then it is opposite of what it was:
If you multiply a number by a positive, it does not reverse the sign: Positive x something equals the a number with the same sign as the something.
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Negative times negative is always a positive.
A positive number multiplied with a negative number will always be negative.
Multiply the number by its self and the answer will always be positive (negative times a negative is positive)
No. A positive times a negative is always negative. A negative times a negative is always a positive.
because you are dividing with same signs