Okay, so let's go over multiplying negative numbers. A positive times a positive is a positive, right? But a negative times a negative is also a positive. Only a negative times a positive (or a positive times a negative) gives you a negative number. So, we know that one of our 2 numbers in this question must be negative; the other must be positive.
Let's now take a look at the factors of -147, starting with the positives. Obviously, -147 and 1 are factors: -147 * 1 = -147. What other factors of -147 are there?
What about 7? Try it: -147 / 7 = -21. So here are two factors: -21, and 7. They multiply to -147. Do they add up to -14? Let's see: -21+7 = 7+(-21) = 7-21= -14. Yup, that works!
Answer: -21 and 7
Positive 18, going off the assumption that the tick 2 spaces away from -1 is positive 9.
Answer: 25 and 22
Step-by-step explanation:
Since one number is 3 bigger than the other, we can call them x, and x-3.
Then we know that the sum of 3 times x and 2 times (x-3) is equal to 19, so we can make the equation
3x+2(x-3)=19
Simplifying would get you
3x+2x-6=19
adding the x's and adding six to both sides of the equations gets you
5x = 25
divide by 5 and
x=5
Put those numbers back into your previous labels for them, x and x-3, and you get 5 and 2
Hope this helps
It is zero and three tenths
2x -7=13 is an equation because it has an equal sign.
