Mathematics
Grade9
Easy

Question

If it is a number, then it is either positive or negative. What is an appropriate counterexample?

  1. 10
  2. -2
  3. 0
  4. True, there is no counterexample

hintHint:

Positive Number = greater than 0
Negative number = less than 0
0 is neither positive nor negative. So it is a counterexample.

The correct answer is: 0


    In the question we were asked to find the counter example from the option which is either positive or negative.

    Here in this solution we understood definition of positive, negative. And found the counter example.

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