How come two negatives make a positive, but three negatives makes a negative? Does this have to do with there being an odd/even amounts of negatives and cancelling each other out?

Which of the following describes how to translate the graph y = xi to obtain the graph of y = x - 11 - 12 1 unit left and 1 unit down 1 unit left and 1 unit up 1 unit right and 1 unit down 1 unit right and 1 unit up

Abcd is reflected across the x- axis, then rotated 90 clockwise about the orgin, and finally reflected across the line y= x to form a’ b’ c’ .

Afootball quarterback has two more chances to throw a touchdown before his team is forced to punt the ball. he misses the receiver on the first throw 25% of the time. when his first throw is incomplete, he misses the receiver on the second throw 15% of the time. what is the probability of not throwing the ball to a receiver on either throw?