Question

+12 Coins Earned

Will the quotient of the division problem shown below be positive or negative?

(-8) ÷ (-4)

Answer 1

Answer: Positive

Explanation:

Example for multiplication:

Imagine 4 friends that owe you $8 each.

Each friend that pays you back represents their payback as -$8.

-$8 * 4 friends = -$32 that they owe you.

The moment they give it back, you now have +$32. The Debt was taken away.

Example for Division:

Imagine splitting 8 dollars in debt with 4 friends, each friend then has $2 in debt. Each payback means you have +$2.

Another visual way to think of this is with Number Lines.

On a number line, when you multiply by a larger absolute value the numbers get bigger and go farther away from 0. So, taking a negative and multiplying it by a positive makes it MORE negative, as opposed to multiplying it by negative and then it reflects the number line,

Answer 2

Answer: Positive

Hope this helps :)

Explanation:

When multiplying or dividing with two negative numbers, the product/quotient will always be positive.

-8/-4 = 2