Why does multiplying two negative numbers equal a positive number?

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Why does multiplying two negative numbers equal a positive number?

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Think of it instead as “opposites”.
-5 x -6 is “the opposite of 5 times the opposite of 6”
So it’s the opposite of the opposite of 5×6.

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