Determine the Sign: Solving (-14)÷(+8) in Integer Division

Question

Determine the resulting sign from the following exercise:

$(-14):(+8)$

00:00 Find the sign of the result

00:03 Let's find the sign of each number

00:07 Negative divided by positive is always negative

00:11 And this is the solution to the question

We will only look at whether the number is negative or positive.

In other words, the division exercise looks like this:

$-:+=$

Since we are dividing a negative number by a positive number, the result must be a negative number.