Can someone please explain this to me? I've been staring at this for 10 minutes.
answer choices:

always, always

always, never

never, always

never, never

Can someone please explain this to me Ive been staring at this for 10 minutes answer choices always always always never never always never never class=

Respuesta :

always, never. Since you are multiplying the same number that you are dividing 1 by, they would essentially cancel out and leave you with 1. If a and b are both negative, then because a negative multiplied by another negative is always positive, it would never be equal to -1

never and never

 2 negatives multiplied by each other = a positive number

 lets look at the first one:

 let a = -2

 you then have -2*(1/-2) = -2 * (-.5) = 1 ( positive 1 )

2nd eq, multiply a negative by a negative:

a = -3, b=-4, -3*-4 = 12 ( positive 12)

 both equations give positive numbers for answers