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Grade 6 (Virginia)
Course: Grade 6 (Virginia) > Unit 2
Lesson 1: Adding negative numbersMissing numbers on the number line examples
Given a few negative numbers on a number line, let's see if we can determine what negative numbers are elsewhere on the number line. Created by Sal Khan.
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how can u tell which side is negative and which side is positive(49 votes)
Negative is always on your left
Positive is always on your right(78 votes)
- Which is greater, -1/3 or -2/5?(11 votes)
you need to look at the fractions as a piece of pie or pizza so if it has 3 as the denominator there will only be 3 slices but their size will be much bigger than a pizza with 8 slices so to anwser your question -2/5 is going to be bigger(20 votes)
Whats an imaginary number?(10 votes)
An imaginary number is a complex number that can be written as a real number multiplied by the imaginary unit i, which is defined by its property i^2 = −1. The square of an imaginary number bi is −b^2. For example, 5i is an imaginary number, and its square is −25. Zero is considered to be both real and imaginary(19 votes)
when he did subtract 8 where did he get the 8 from(12 votes)
you have -2, and to get to -10 you need to subtract eight, simple as that.(5 votes)
- upvote for caculaters that do your homework(14 votes)
What's negative and What's positive.(7 votes)- A negative is something that is below zero. A positive is something that is above zero. Hope this helps! -Johnny Unidas(6 votes)
- how many years does it take to learn the khan academy(8 votes)
- Well it the whole khan academy is very big. Well it might take u 20yrs to finish everything in khan academy and if u study like 5 hour each day maybe over 9yrs+(6 votes)
i rely do not care about math(9 votes)
- "Never Gonna Give You Up"
We're no strangers to love
You know the rules and so do I
A full commitment's what I'm thinking of
You wouldn't get this from any other guy
I just wanna tell you how I'm feeling
Gotta make you understand
Never gonna give you up
Never gonna let you down
Never gonna run around and desert you
Never gonna make you cry
Never gonna say goodbye
Never gonna tell a lie and hurt you
We've known each other for so long
Your heart's been aching, but
You're too shy to say it
Inside, we both know what's been going on
We know the game and we're gonna play it
And if you ask me how I'm feeling
Don't tell me you're too blind to see
Never gonna give you up
Never gonna let you down
Never gonna run around and desert you
Never gonna make you cry
Never gonna say goodbye
Never gonna tell a lie and hurt you
Never gonna give you up
Never gonna let you down
Never gonna run around and desert you
Never gonna make you cry
Never gonna say goodbye
Never gonna tell a lie and hurt you
(Ooh, give you up)
(Ooh, give you up)
Never gonna give, never gonna give
(Give you up)
Never gonna give, never gonna give
(Give you up)
We've known each other for so long
Your heart's been aching, but
You're too shy to say it
Inside, we both know what's been going on
We know the game and we're gonna play it
I just wanna tell you how I'm feeling
Gotta make you understand
Never gonna give you up
Never gonna let you down
Never gonna run around and desert you
Never gonna make you cry
Never gonna say goodbye
Never gonna tell a lie and hurt you
Never gonna give you up
Never gonna let you down
Never gonna run around and desert you
Never gonna make you cry
Never gonna say goodbye
Never gonna tell a lie and hurt you
Never gonna give you up
Never gonna let you down
Never gonna run around and desert you
Never gonna make you cry
Never gonna say goodbye
Never gonna tell a lie and hurt you(7 votes)
Rick Astley's song “Never Gonna Give You Up” was released on this day in 1987 and led to the now famous “Rickrolling” phenomenon, an internet bait-and-switch using disguised hyperlinks to Astley's video for the song.(3 votes)
Video transcript
- We have three different
number lines here, and on each number line they mark off a couple of these marks,
this is negative two this is negative 10,
negative five, negative 11, and then we need to figure out
what the blue dot represents. And as a little bit of a hint, each mark here is not
necessarily incrementing by one, it could be by more than one. So I encourage you to pause this video, and to try it on your own. Try to figure out what number
does this blue dot represent on these different number lines? So let's tackle this first one. So we're gonna go where
they gave us this mark is negative two, this is negative 10, and we need to figure out this blue one that's further to the left of negative 10. Well just going from
negative two to negative 10, what has to happen to negative
two to get to negative 10? Well we'll have to subtract eight. And so if we move two to the left, that's the equivalent
of subtracting eight. So if we move two to the left again, that's subtracting eight again. So this must be negative 18 and so if we move two to the left again, that also must be subtracting eight. Negative 18 minus eight,
would get us to negative, that gets us to negative 26. Now another way we could
have thought about it is, if we jump two to the left
and that's negative eight, then one jump to the left
is gonna be negative four. So you could say "Well
this is negative four", that would get you to negative six, then negative four again
gets you to negative 10, then this would be
negative 14, negative 18, negative 22, negative 26. Now let's tackle this one. So here we're gonna, we have to figure out what this blue dot here is on the right. So if we started at 11, you make two jumps to go to negative five. So what do I have to add to negative 11 to get to negative five? Well I have to add six. So if I add six over two jumps, that means that each of these jumps, that must be plus three, and this one must be plus three. So now each mark we just add three. So negative five plus three... So plus three is gonna
get us to negative two. Plus three gets us to positive one, negative two plus three is positive one, plus three gets us to four. So here we got to negative 26, here we get to four. Now let's tackle this one. So we're at negative seven, or this is negative seven this is one and then we have to figure
out this mark right over here. So if you take two jumps to the right, from negative seven to one, how much did we have to add? Well to get from negative seven to one, you have to add eight. You have to add eight. So then if we make another two
jumps to the mystery number that means we added eight again. So one plus eight is nine. Another way we could
have thought about it, if we added eight over two jumps that means we added four on each jump. So this one must be negative three, add four you get to one, add four you get to five, add four you get to nine.