Determine the resulting sign from the following exercise:
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Determine the resulting sign from the following exercise:
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 positive number by a positive number, our result must be positive.
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Solve the following exercise:
\( (+6)\cdot(+9)= \)
Since we only need the sign of the result, not the actual value, we can skip the conversion! Both and are clearly positive.
Then you'd use the rule: positive ÷ negative = negative or negative ÷ positive = negative. Only when both numbers have the same sign is the result positive!
Same signs give positive, different signs give negative. Think:
No! Sign rules work the same for all numbers - whole numbers, fractions, decimals, or mixed numbers. The type of number doesn't change the sign rules.
Then you'd convert to , then multiply by the reciprocal: or . But this question only wants the sign!
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