What is 40 divided by minus 10?

Answer 1

30

Answer 2

The first step to doing this is to ignore the minus or negative signs and just do the division. In this case we have 40/10 which comes out as 4. The next step is to assess if this is negative or positive. A negative divided by a negative produces a positive. A positive divided by a positive produces a positive. Otherwise, the answer is a negative. In this case we have a positive divided by a negative, thus the answer must be negative. Therefore, 40 divided by minus 10 is -4.