Determine the Sign: Multiplying Fractions 1/4 × 1/2

Question

Determine the resulting sign of the following exercise:

$\frac{1}{4}\cdot\frac{1}{2}=$

00:00 What will be the sign of the result?

00:04 Positive times positive is always positive

00:10 Make sure to multiply numerator by numerator and denominator by denominator

00:13 And this is the solution to the question

When there is no minus or plus sign before the numbers, we usually assume that these are positive numbers as shown below:

(+1/4)*(+1/2)=

The dot in the middle represents multiplication:

So the question in other words is - what happens when we multiply two positive numbers together?

We know that two positive integers when multiplied result in a positive integer:

Therefore the answer is "positive".

Positive