Today I am going to be talking about the Multiplication Property of zero. We all have friends. Some of them are a little corky. You know they just do things like no one else. We all have them. This is a good thing.
Because of them the world is a better place and that is because we are not all the same. Usually those people that are the most different, make life the most interesting.
In the Math world zero is that corky friend. It does not follow the rules of all the other numbers. It has its own unique properties that makes mathematics more interesting. One of zero’s unique rules is called the
multiplication property of Zero. The multiplication property states that The product of 0 and any other number results in 0. That is for any real number a, a times 0 = 0. It does not matter what the number is and when
you multiply it to zero, you get zero as the answer.
That means:
3 X 0 = 0 6 X 0 = 0
0 X -5 = 0 -8 X 0 = 0
It is like saying that you have 3 groups of zero is zero, or even, zero groups of -5 is zero.
It is the same for any algebraic terms:
b X 0 = 0 y^2 X 0 = 0
And even x^2y^3z^15 = 0
It does not matter what else is going on because when you have a number times zero you will always always get zero.
That is the Multiplication Property of zero.