<span>When you multiply numbers, two negative signs cancel each other out. Therefore if four of the numbers are negative the product is positive. If either one or three numbers are negative, the product is negative.
1.a negative, b positive, c positive, d positive
2.a positive, b negative, c positive, d positive
3.a positive, b positive, c negative, d positive
4.a positive, b positive, c positive, d negative
5.a positive, b negative, c negative, d negative
6.a negative, b positive, c negative, d negative
7.a negative, b negative, c positive, d negative
8.a negative, b negative, c negative, d positive</span>
a homeowner wants to tile the 4 walls and the floor of her pool the pool is 33 ft. in length by 14 ft. in width the shallow end is 3 ft. deep, and the deep end is 6.5 ft. approximately how many square feet of tile does she need to purchase?
The answer is 23 1/3. First, you need to add 280 to both sides of the equations in order cancel out 280 and get 12x by itself. But remember whatever you do to one side of an equation, you must to do the other. So now you have 12x=280. Now divide both sides of the equation by 12 in order to get x completely isolated. 280 divided by twelve is 23 1/3.