document.write( "<A HREF=/cgi-bin/jump-to-question.mpl?question=1205086>Question 1205086</A>: <I><SPAN STYLE=\"word-break: break-all;\"> I am reading a Turn and Talk question in a math book. \r<BR>\n" );
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document.write( "It says \"How do you know when a product <BR>\n" );
document.write( "will be less than one of its factors?\"\r<BR>\n" );
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document.write( "I thought products are always equal to or greater than its factors.<BR>\n" );
document.write( "If a product will be less than one of its factors, I need to see<BR>\n" );
document.write( "an example. </SPAN>\n" );
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document.write( "If you are only working with natural numbers (counting numbers -- 1, 2, 3, ...) then the product of two numbers is always equal to or greater than each factor.<br><BR>\n" );
document.write( "But if we allow fractions and one of the factors is less than 1, then the product of that number and a second factor will be less than the second factor.  For example,<br><BR>\n" );
document.write( "(1/2)*4 = 2, which is less than 4.<br><BR>\n" );
document.write( "or<br><BR>\n" );
document.write( "(1/2)*(2/3) = 1/3<br><BR>\n" );
document.write( "There the product is less than either of the factors, because both factors are less than 1.<br><BR>\n" );
document.write( "And there are other examples if we allow different kinds of numbers.  For example, if the first factor is positive and the second is negative, then the product is negative; and a negative number is less than any positive number.<br><BR>\n" );
document.write( "Example: (3)*(-2) = -6, which is less than 3<br><BR>\n" );
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