That is changing. New research from the National Academy of Sciences suggests that's no longer the case: scientists can now determine with some confidence the degree climate change influenced some extreme weather events.
The factors are the numbers that are being multiplied together. The product is the result or answer of multiplying the multiplicand by the multiplier. A multiplication problem may be written horizontally such as 2 x 7 = 14. In this example 2 and 7 are the factors and 14 is the product of the multiplication. A multiplication problem may be written vertically. 2 x 7 14.
Positive and Negative. If a problem consists of a positive number being divided by a negative number, the answer will always result in a negative number. For example, if a problem reads 10 divided by -5, the answer is -2. Follow normal division rules, as if both numbers were positive, and add a negative sign to the quotient for problems like this.