Question

2. Norah said that when you divide two negative decimals, the quotient will be greater than 0. Use these numbers to answer the questions: (a) Is Norah's statement always true, sometimes true, or always false? Write two equations to support your answer.

Answer 1

Answer: It's an absolutely correct statement because when we divide two negative numbers even if those are decimals or not, it would given a positive number.

-0.8 ÷ -0.2 = 4

-1.05 ÷ -0.5 =2.1

Step-by-step explanation: We are given statement " When you divide two negative decimals, the quotient will be greater than 0.".

It's an absolutely correct statement because when we divide two negative numbers even if those are decimals or not, it would given a positive number.

When same sign numbers divided it always gives a positive number and a positive number is always greater than 0.

Let us take some example in this support:

Example 1:

-0.8 ÷ -0.2

When we divide -0.8 by -0.2, the negative signs get cross and we can divide 0.8 by 0.2 to get 4.

We can see that 4 is a positive number and it is greater than 0.

Example 2:  

-1.05 ÷ -0.5.

Here again, when we divide -1.05 by -0.5 the negative sign get cross out and we can divided 1.05 by 0.5, which gives 2.1.

We can see that 2.1 is a positive number and it is greater than 0.