Here are some practice exercises with multiplication and signed numbers. The expectation is that readers can make these calculations here without a calculator.
  1. Multiply
  2. Find the product of and
  3. Compute
  4. Find the product
  1. Since and we are multiplying numbers of opposite signs, the answer is negative:
  2. Since and we are multiplying numbers of opposite signs, the answer is negative:
  3. Since and we are multiplying numbers of the same sign, the answer is positive:
  4. Any number multiplied by is