Question

-8 divided by -1/2

Answer 1

16

Answer 2

Its 4

Answer 3

Your answer's 4.

Answer 4

\( -8 \div (-\dfrac{1}{2}) \)

\(=-\dfrac{8}{1} \div (-\dfrac{1}{2}) \)

\(= -8 \times (-2)\)

Answer 5

@ajanijones is correct the answer is 4

Answer 6

Negative divided by negative is positive.
Negative times negative is positive.
What is 8 * 2?

Answer 7

16

Answer 8

16

Answer 9

well is it 16 or 4

Answer 10

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Answer 11

ok

Answer 12

8*2=16
-8/-1/2=4

Answer 13

Dividing by 1/2 is the same as multiplying by 2.

Answer 14

-8/(-1/2) = -8 * (-2) = 16

Answer 15

I understand what the confusion is.
The answer to this problem is definitely 16, not 4.
The question here is what is -8 divided by -1/2. The answer is 16.

The reason some people claim the answer is 4 is that they are interpreting the problem incorrectly.

Since we know that a negative divided by a negative is positive, we know this problem will have a positive answer. Let's just treat the problem, as 8 divided by 1/2.

If you write it correctly as 8/(1/2), then this is the same as
\(8 \div \dfrac{1}{2} = 8 \times 2 = 16\)

If you write it incorrectly as

8/1/2, then the problem is treated like this:

\(\color{red}{8 \div 1} \div 2 = \color{red}{8} \div 2 = 4\)

This is where the answer of 4 comes from. 4 is the correct answer to
8/1/2, but 8/1/2 is not the same problem as 8/(1/2) which was the original problem.

Answer 16

If you don't believe my explanation, use Wolfram and enter

-8/-1/2 (the wrong problem with answer 4)

and

-8/(-1/2) (the correct problem with answer 16)