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You find the mean of negative numbers the same way you find the mean of any numbers. You add them up and then you divide by the number of numbers. An example, using -3, -4, -6, and -9. The sum is -22. N is 4. The mean is -5.5.
For most school mathematics, negative numbers do not have square roots. This is because a negative number multiplied by itself is a negative times a negative and so is positive. When (if) you study advanced mathematics, you will learn that there is a solution and this falls within the realms of complex mathematics and imaginary numbers.
It's known that Chinese people in Han Dynasty were the first to discover negative number. The second person to discover negative number was Diophantus in Greece. The third person to find it was Pearce Ian in India.
Negative times negative equals positive. Positive times positive equals positive. Positive times negative equals negative. If you have more than two numbers, multiply the first two and then apply these rules to each successive number in turn.
If you include negative numbers, the list is infinite.