negative multiplied by another negative becomes positive; why?

That is the logical fathom when negative plus negative the results will be positive and otherwise and as example if only two side against each other or in an opposite corelation there will be result as negative

This is actually something that I really wondered about when I was younger and was learning the rules of mathematics. I actually asked several of my math teachers about this and none of them were really able to explain why things are the way that they are. So, in my life, I've learned that this is just one of the things that you should accept without expecting there to be an explanation as to why it is that way.

Wish it were true in real life as well. I mean if I hate somebody, and that person hates me back, then it should lead to both us gaining. It doesnt happen that way in real life, does it?

I wouldn't know the logic behind it but this information helped me pass my algebra so I have nothing against it.

It was like as if enemy of and enemy is a friend....:)

Hi Doctor, It is a math rule tracing its origins to the number line system. Counting starts with zero and the direction determines its sign. Going to the right, we go higher as positive numbers adds up. Going left, the number gets lower as counting is lessened, thus the negative sign. The result of multiplication, the product, is determined by the two numbers, the factors, actually scaling a number by another in a determined amount. Negatively signed integers to left of the number line get this rule. It is like tracing the origins at the left of the number line and getting the result to right, on the positive zone due to the large scale involved.

Don't question it, accept it... I hate math and though I am learning how to work out some problems, where it comes to adding and subtracting negative numbers, I still have to check my notes to know whether I am to literally add or subtract and what sign to use.. On the other hand, my nine year old son who was never taught how to do this, can do it, no matter what equation I throw at him... That is why I love multiplying and dividing negatives, because I know how to work it out and what sign to use...

It's math so for sure there is an explanation, but I must admit I'm not so good in maths and I cannot explain it.