What is 0 divided by -2, is it no solution?

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What is 0 divided by -2, is it no solution?

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Answer 1 · 2016-02-10T13:22:29

No, $\frac{0}{- 2} = 0$ $0/-2=0$
Because, $- 2 \cdot 0 = 0$ $-2*0=0$

Answer 2 · 2016-02-10T13:28:03

$\frac{0}{- 2} = 0$ $0/(-2) = 0$

Explanation:

For any real number $a \neq 0$ $a!=0$ we have $\frac{0}{a} = 0$ $0/a = 0$ . It's having $0$ $0$ in the denominator that gives us problems.
$\frac{a}{0}$ $a/0$ is undefined.

One way of arriving at the conclusion above is looking at how we add rational numbers with the same denominator:

$0 = 1 - 1 = \frac{- 2}{- 2} - \frac{- 2}{- 2} = \frac{- 2 - (- 2)}{- 2} = \frac{0}{- 2}$ $0 = 1-1 = (-2)/(-2) - (-2)/(-2) = (-2-(-2))/(-2)=0/(-2)$

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