SOLUTION: is there 2 numbers less than 1 that can be multiplied to make a number greater than 1?

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Question 484923: is there 2 numbers less than 1 that can be multiplied to make a number greater than 1?
Found 2 solutions by Alan3354, Edwin McCravy:
Answer by Alan3354(69443)   (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
There are if you include negative numbers.
-2 * -4 = 8
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If you mean the absolute values, then there aren't any.

Answer by Edwin McCravy(20060)   (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
is there 2 numbers less than 1 that can be multiplied to make a number greater than 1?
I assumed you were in basic math and hadn't studied negative numbers,
as the other tutor did.
So I say:

No! That's like asking 

"Can you take a part of a part of a thing and get something greater than a
whole thing?"

No! What a silly question.

All numbers less than 1 are fractional parts of a whole.  When you take a
fractional part of another fractional part, you get an even smaller fractional
part -- certainly never more than a whole!

When you take part of something and then take part of that you can never hope
to get more than a whole thing! 

However you look at it, the answer is no.

Edwin


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