Determine the Sign: Solving (-14)÷(+8) in Integer Division

Question

Determine the resulting sign from the following exercise:

$(-14):(+8)$

00:07 First, let's determine the sign of the result.

00:11 We'll check the sign of each number involved.

00:15 Remember, a negative divided by a positive is always negative.

00:20 And that's how we solve this problem. Well done!

We will only look at whether the number is negative or positive.

In other words, the division exercise looks like this:

$-:+=$

Since we are dividing a negative number by a positive number, the result must be a negative number.