Positive and Negative Numbers with Zero

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What is a positive number?

A positive number is greater than zero.

What is a negative number?

A negative number is less than zero.

What is the value of zero considered in math?

Zero is considered as a neutral number, neither positive nor negative.

How do you represent a positive number on the number line?

Positive numbers are represented to the right of zero on the number line.

How do you represent a negative number on the number line?

Negative numbers are represented to the left of zero on the number line.

What happens when you add a positive number to a negative number?

The sum can be positive, negative, or zero, depending on their absolute values.

What is the result of adding zero to any number?

Adding zero to any number gives you the same number.

How do you subtract a positive number from zero?

Subtraction of a positive number from zero gives a negative number.

What is the rule for multiplying two negative numbers?

The product of two negative numbers is positive.

What rule applies when multiplying a positive number by a negative number?

The product is negative.

What is the operation result when zero multiplies with any number?

The result is always zero.

What is meant by absolute value?

The absolute value is the distance of a number from zero on the number line, always positive.

If a temperature is -5 degrees and increases by 10 degrees, what is the new temperature?

The new temperature would be 5 degrees.

If you have 3 apples and you spend 5, represented as a number equation, what would it be?

Start with a positive 3 and subtract 5, resulting in -2.

What will be the result if you subtract -7 from -3?

The result is 4, as subtracting a negative is the same as adding its positive.





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1. What is a positive number?

A positive number is less than zero.

Zero is considered as a positive number.

A positive number is greater than zero.

A positive number is equal to zero.

2. What is a negative number?

A negative number is less than zero.

A negative number is greater than zero.

A negative number is equal to zero.

A negative number is neither positive nor zero.

3. What is the value of zero considered in math?

Zero is a positive number.

Zero is strictly a negative number.

Zero is considered as a neutral number, neither positive nor negative.

Zero is always considered positive when solving equations.

4. How do you represent a positive number on the number line?

To the left of zero.

To the right of zero.

Above the zero.

Below the zero.

5. How do you represent a negative number on the number line?

To the left of zero.

To the right of zero.

Above the zero.

Below the zero.

6. What happens when you add a positive number to a negative number?

The sum can be positive, negative, or zero, depending on their absolute values.

It always results in a negative number.

The sum is always zero.

It always results in a positive number.

7. What is the result of adding zero to any number?

Adding zero to any number gives you the same number.

The result becomes zero.

It results in a negative number if the original number is positive.

It results in a positive number if the original number is negative.

8. How do you subtract a positive number from zero?

Subtraction of a positive number from zero gives a negative number.

The result is always zero.

It gives a positive number.

It can't be done.

9. What is the rule for multiplying two negative numbers?

The product of two negative numbers is positive.

The product is always zero.

The product is negative.

The product is negative only if one number is zero.

10. What rule applies when multiplying a positive number by a negative number?

The product is always positive.

The product is always zero.

The product is negative.

The product remains unchanged.

11. What is the operation result when zero multiplies with any number?

The result is always zero.

The result is unchanged.

The result is a positive number.

The result is a negative number.

12. What is meant by absolute value?

The absolute value is the distance of a number from zero on the number line, always positive.

The absolute value is the actual value of a number.

The absolute value is a number without its sign, which can be negative or positive.

The absolute value is equivalent to the number's reciprocal.

13. If a temperature is -5 degrees and increases by 10 degrees, what is the new temperature?

The new temperature would be 5 degrees.

The new temperature would be 15 degrees.

The new temperature would remain -5 degrees.

The new temperature would be -15 degrees.

14. If you have 3 apples and you spend 5, represented as a number equation, what would it be?

Start with a negative 3 and add 5, resulting in 8.

Start with a positive 3 and subtract 5, resulting in -2.

Start with zero and subtract 5, resulting in -5.

Start with 3 and add 5, resulting in 8.

15. What will be the result if you subtract -7 from -3?

The result is -10.

The result is -4.

The result is 4, as subtracting a negative is the same as adding its positive.

The result is -1, as the signs cancel each other out.