Question

Ted asked $1$, “But where did $0$ go?” On this, $1$’s sad face became red with anger. It said: “$0$ didn’t go anywhere; it was kidnapped.” Ted got astonished on this. “Kidnapped?”, he asked, “By whom?”

Then $1$ took Ted to $0$’s house. After $0$’s house, there was a wall, pointing to which $1$ said with a serious tone - “Beyond the wall, the kidnappers live. They look like us but have a ‘–‘ sign before them.” The numbers who live beyond the wall are also called ___ of the numbers living in the world of natural numbers.

• A. negatives
• B. additive inverses
• C. opposites
• D. clones

Answer 1

Answer: (A), (B), (C)

The correct options are
A

negatives

B

additive inverses

C

opposites

The number to the left of zero would be one less than zero, i.e., $0-1=-1$
to the left of $-1$, we would have $-1-1=-2$ and so on...
$-1,-2,-3$... are negative numbers.

The additive inverse of a number x is the number that, when added to x, yields zero.
for example, $2+(-2)=0$
so $-2$ is said to be the additive inverse of $2$.