twistedtree

Ok let’s say w and z equals -1. Imput it in.

 1.         |-1| = |-1| = 1. It works since the absolute value of -1 is 1

 2.         -1*-1=1 because negatives mutiplied by negatives is a positive.

the third one I’m going to do it top then bottom.

 3.            top: -1 + -1 = -2

bottom: 1 + (-1 * -1) = 1 + 1 = 2

together: -2 /2 = -1 and -1 is a real number. (Unless you mean it has to be a positive number)

ok lets say it's been 2 days, if they go back to refill the supply they lose 4 days, no matter because they can refill, but since there back at the start they still have to travel the same amount of days to get the letter so yes they could, but it's kind of a waste of time.

EDIT: while I was doing the problem, you could have, for example, 3 people, and lets say it takes them 20 days, after 5 days, each person would have 15 boxes of food, one of the people could give 5 to one and 5 to the other and then go back to the base with 5 boxes to get back so it would work. I still don’t know the answer though -_-

when you mean the starting point i'm guessing you mean where the letter is, the answer is no.

well if there were two people that were going and the 2nd person gave the 1st person some of his food around the middle of the time when there walking to get the letter, the 2nd person wouldn't have enough food to get to the mail.