Question

Problems 5-8 below pertain to this number line.

Answer 1

@dude can you read that?

Answer 2

Yeh I can read it, do you have an idea on how to solve it?

Answer 3

Kinda... I know product means multiply, so I need to do A*B... from the looks of it,. I wanna say it’s D?

Answer 4

Close, you will get a positive

Answer 5

So then it has to be E

Answer 6

Please explain how you got that.

Answer 7

Right so lets look at this visually lets say `A` is around -1.2 and `B` is around -0.8
If we multiply: \(-1.2\cdot 0.8\) we get \(0.96\) which is positive and more closer to 1

Answer 8

Oo, okie 👍

Answer 9

Which point most closely approximates the product of B and E

Answer 10

So.. -.8*.9?

Answer 11

Sure

Answer 12

I got -.72 so, C?

Answer 13

We could put it that way though its a bit ambiguous

Answer 14

Is that the answer though? Seems right.

Answer 15

I would put that