{"id":1050,"date":"2013-07-31T04:20:01","date_gmt":"2013-07-31T04:20:01","guid":{"rendered":"?page_id=1050"},"modified":"2013-07-31T04:20:01","modified_gmt":"2013-07-31T04:20:01","slug":"page-26","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.algebrawithinreach.com\/eia6e\/content\/math-help\/chapter-1\/section-3\/page-26\/","title":{"rendered":"Page 26"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"math-help-container\">\n<h2 class='math-help-heading'>Math Help for Section 1.3, Page 26<\/h2>\n<\/h2>\n<p>\n<span style=\"font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;\">Study<br \/>\nTip <\/span><br \/>\nRemember that when multiplying more than two factors\u2014if the number of<br \/>\nnegative factors is even, then the product is positive; if the<br \/>\nnumber of negative factors is odd, then the product is negative.\n<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;\">Checking a Solution<\/span><br \/>\n<br \/>\nRemember that you can always check your answer for a division problem<br \/>\nby multiplying the quotient by the divisor and checking that the result<br \/>\nis equal to the original dividend. For instance, in the Concept<br \/>\nSummary, the quotient of $-40$ and $-8$ is calculated to be $5$. Check<br \/>\nthis by multiplying $5$ by $-8$. <\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; $5\\bullet(-8)=-(5\\bullet<br \/>\n8)=-40$&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<br \/>\n&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; <small><span style=\"color: red;\">Solution checks. \u00e2\u0153\u201d<\/span><\/small><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><!---image, centered--><!--- \n\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"\/eia6e\/images\/math-help\/0x\/ea_mh_0x_0x_xxxx.png\"><\/div>\n\n --><br \/>\n<!---image, not centered--><!--- <img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"\/eia6e\/images\/math-help\/0x\/ea_mh_0x_0x_xxxx.png\"> --><br \/>\n<\/body><\/html><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Math Help for Section 1.3, Page 26 Study Tip Remember that when multiplying more than two factors\u2014if the number of negative factors is even, then the product is positive; if the number of negative factors is odd, then the product &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.algebrawithinreach.com\/eia6e\/content\/math-help\/chapter-1\/section-3\/page-26\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":787,"menu_order":130,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-1050","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.algebrawithinreach.com\/eia6e\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1050","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.algebrawithinreach.com\/eia6e\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.algebrawithinreach.com\/eia6e\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.algebrawithinreach.com\/eia6e\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.algebrawithinreach.com\/eia6e\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1050"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.algebrawithinreach.com\/eia6e\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1050\/revisions"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.algebrawithinreach.com\/eia6e\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/787"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.algebrawithinreach.com\/eia6e\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1050"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}