Question

What is a reciprocal of -5?

Answer 1

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Answer 2

-1/5

Answer 3

The reciprocal of a number is the number's multiplicative inverse: in other words the number that when you multiply by that number you get 1.

The reciprocal of -5 is 0.2 in other words 1 over -5

** Note that you do not want to confuse this with a number's opposite, or additive inverse. The additive inverse is a number so that the sum of the numbers is 0. ** hoped it helped