What does negative 2 fivehteenths minus negative 1 ninth equal?

1. What does negative subtract negative equal?
2. What happens when you subtract two numbers that are negative?
3. Why do negatives cancel out?
4. What happens when you add a positive and a negative?
5. Do negative fractions exist?
6. Why does 2 negatives make a positive?
7. How do you add negatives?

What does negative subtract negative equal?

Rule 3: Subtracting a negative number from a negative number – a minus sign followed by a negative sign, turns the two signs into a plus sign. So, instead of subtracting a negative, you are adding a positive. Basically, - (-4) becomes +4, and then you add the numbers. For example, say we have the problem -2 - –4.

What happens when you subtract two numbers that are negative?

If you subtract a negative number, the two negatives combine to make a positive.

Why do negatives cancel out?

The negatives cancel out

When you multiply a negative number by a positive number, the negative number flips the sign around and your result will be a negative number. When you multiply two negative numbers together, though, the first one flips the sign from positive to negative, and the second one flips it back.

What happens when you add a positive and a negative?

When you are adding a negative number to a positive number you are effectively subtracting the second number from the first. For example, take 4 + (-2). ... And then you add the negative number, which means you are moving to the left – in the negative direction.

Do negative fractions exist?

A negative fraction could indicate the absence removal of the indicated quantity. For example, adding −1/2 of a pizza would mean removing 1/2 of that pizza. So, yes, fractions can be negative.

Why does 2 negatives make a positive?

Each number has an "additive inverse" associated to it (a sort of "opposite" number), which when added to the original number gives zero. ... The fact that the product of two negatives is a positive is therefore related to the fact that the inverse of the inverse of a positive number is that positive number back again.

How do you add negatives?

Adding a negative number is the same as subtracting a positive number — that is, go down (to the left) on the number line. This rule works regardless of whether you start with a positive or negative number.