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28 February, 03:17

Why do two negatives equal a positive when multiplying?

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  1. 28 February, 07:02
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    They cancel out each other

    Imagine if you were multiplying

    -2 * - 3

    you would get 6

    if you did

    -2 * 3

    you would get - 6 because there isn't another - to cancel it out

    I learned it that when you have a negative before a negative, put parenthesis around the second number with the negative, so it looks like this

    - (-2)

    if you look at the - ( - it looks like a plus sign

    that probably doesn't make much sense but we cancelling it out is just a rule, we don't really know why we do it
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