Thursday 30 April 2009

Odds Evens and Integers

One GCSE question starts by asking what happens if you multiply an even number by an even number. Well you end up with an even number. What happens if you multiply an even number by an odd number? You end up with an even number. Is that clear? Just think of a line or children who are in pairs. However many pairs you have, you always have an even number. I hope you this is clear to you now and all you had to do was think of rows of children.

For the next part of this GCSE question all you need to know is the definition of an integer. You are asked to take away an even number p, from an odd number q. The question is whether the answer is an integer, not an integer, or could it be either. Now an integer is a positive or negative whole number and includes zero. So if you are taking one number from another, it doesn't matter whether they are positive or negative, the result is always an integer.

That sums it up.

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