Determine the Sign: Multiplying Fractions 1/4 × 1/2

Question

Determine the resulting sign of the following exercise:

$\frac{1}{4}\cdot\frac{1}{2}=$

00:07 Let's find out the sign of the result.

00:11 Remember, a positive number times a positive number is always positive.

00:16 Now, multiply the numerators with each other, and the denominators with each other.

00:21 And there you have it! That's how we solve this problem.

When there is no minus or plus sign before the numbers, we usually assume that these are positive numbers as shown below:

(+1/4)*(+1/2)=

The dot in the middle represents multiplication:

So the question in other words is - what happens when we multiply two positive numbers together?

We know that two positive integers when multiplied result in a positive integer:

Therefore the answer is "positive".

Positive