The difference only gets larger!

Algebra Level 2

If $A$ is larger than $B$ , does it also mean that $A \times A$ is larger than $B \times B?$

No Yes

2 solutions

Achal Jain
Mar 13, 2017

Put $A = -2$ and $B =-4$

$( A \times A= 4)$ $<$ $(B \times B=16)$

Munem Shahriar
Jul 29, 2018

If $A = 1$ and $B = -1$ then $A^2 = 1^2 = 1$ and $B^2 = (-1)^2 = 1$ . Hence $A \not > B$ .

But this wouldn't fulfill the if condition either... :-/

Geoff Pilling - 1 year, 12 months ago