I was just thinking about this, I'm pretty good at maths but I'm stumped with this one. If you multiply a negative number by another negative number you get a positive number. I can't think of any real world examples where this can make sense. Now I'm thinking perhaps something at the cellular level and bacteria. I've no idea.
Multiplying two negative numbers together: a real world example?
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Yup, debt works, that's a good enough real world example for me. Thanks.
Can anyone trump a financial example?
Are you thick, ignorant, or trying to be funny? I can't tell.
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What is wrong with you? Type 1+1 into a calculator. The answer is 2. How can you not know this? Window isn't even a number.
I actually got someone to go on youtube and find a retarded video. I bet they watched it too Nah, you're doing -5 * 5 and -5 * 2. In the last example you don't have hands.
If a doctor owes you a pair of hands and a farmer owes you an apple for each hand the doctor owes you you'd have 2 apples.
-1(hands) * (-2 apples). Although that's clearly a nonsense example.
I can think of a real world example
Area is height x width.
If you're plotting something on a graph, and want to find the area. Let's say the points are -5 on the x axis, and -4 on the y axis, the area is 20, not -20.
Nope this is wrong. You're multiplying the length of one side by the width of the other, the length is 0 - (-5) and the width 0 - (-4) so you have 5 * 4. And the subtraction of a negative number is very easy to show in the real world.