Question

Why does a positive times a negative produces a negative?

Answer 1

Hey mate here is your answer》》

We can represent "removes" by a negative number and figure out the answer by multiplying. This is an illustration of a negative times a negative resulting in a positive. If one thinks of multiplication as grouping, then we have made a positive group by taking away a negative number twelve times.

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Answer 2

When we discover negative numbers we naturally, without question even, assume they obey the same laws of arithmetic as the ordinary positive counting numbers. That is, we like to believe that basic laws such as a×b=b×aa×b=b×a and a×1=aa×1=a and a×0=0a×0=0 hold for all numbers, both positive and negative, and that we can expand brackets even with negative entries, and so on. Of course, these rules assume we know a priori know how to multiply with negative numbers.