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Are negative numbers bigger or positive?
Positive numbers are larger than negative ones.
Is a negative integer bigger then a positive integer?
no, all negative numbers are smaller than positive numbers
Are fractions bigger than negative numbers?
You can have negative fractions so it depends. it depends if you have a negative fraction you could have -1/2 but 1/2 is bigger than -1/2. negative numbers will always be smaller than positive numbers.
Which is bigger negative one half or negative one?
Negative 1/2 is bigger than negative 1. If you look at the number line the farther right you go the bigger the numbers get. example: 1,2,3,4.. so it is the same for negative numbers example: -4,-3,-2,-1,-1/2
Are negative numbers bigger than positive numbers?
no negative numbers are always smaller than positive numbers..... you can draw out a numberline and see any number to the left of the number zero is negative and to the right is positive
What is bigger -125 or 125?
It depends on how you define "bigger" Both numbers have the same absolute value, namely 125. If you consider positive numbers big and negative numbers as small, then certainly 125 is bigger.
If you add a positive and a negative number how can you tell whether the answer will be positive negative or equal?
If the negative number is bigger then the answer will be negative If the bigger number is positive then the answer will be positive. All you do is subtract the two numbers and take the sign of the bigger number Ex (+2)+(-7)=(-5)
Is negative 3 less than negative 4?
no For the negative numbers the biggest is the one closer to 0 so -3 is bigger than -4 and -2 is bigger than -3 and so on
What do two negative numbers added together equal?
A bigger negative number. For example: -1 + -5= -6
Is -4 bigger then 3?
No, 3 is bigger than -4 because -4 is below zero and therefore a negative number. 3 is a positive number and is above zero. All positive numbers are larger than negative numbers.
Adding and subtracting negative and positive numbers?
when youre adding negative numbers, you add them and put a negative sign (ex: -6 + -5=-11) when you add negative and positive numbers(ex: -9 + 7) you subtract the numbers and take the sign of the bigger number (9-7=2, so the answer is -2 because the bigger number, 9, is negative when you subtract 2 negative numbers you add them together and put a negative sign when you subtract a neg. number and a pos. number (ex: -8 - 3) you add the numbers but the 3 becomes negative so the problem becomes -8 + -3. the answer is -11
Is negative 4 bigger then negative 7?
Yes - imagine moving from left to right on a number line, the numbers on the right being larger than the numbers on the left.
