121k views
22 votes
CAN SOMEONE PLZ HELP ME WITH THIS 1 QUESTION!?!

CAN SOMEONE PLZ HELP ME WITH THIS 1 QUESTION!?!-example-1

1 Answer

1 vote

Answer:

What Doug probably means to say is that the reciprocal of -2/5 is 5/-2. So, by this definition, Doug would be correct. However, you would not usually call it the "opposite" of a number, rather, the reciprocal.

The numbers are reciprocals of the other as their product is equal to one "-2/5 * 5/-2 = 1"

User Abhijeet
by
6.8k points