CBSE Class 7 Answered

Those fractions in which either the numerator or the denominator is negative, is termed as a negative rational number.

In the above list of numbers, the first and third rational numbers have the numerator and denominator as negative respectively.

Therefore, and  are negative rational numbers.

In the above list of numbers, zero is neither positive nor negative.

can be written as , since we can cancel out the negative signs on the numerator and the denominator.

Therefore,  is the negative rational number as the denominator is a negative integer.