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Varvara68 [4.7K]
3 years ago
14

Why do we reverse the direction of the inequality symbol when multiplying or dividing by a negative number?

Mathematics
1 answer:
DiKsa [7]3 years ago
7 0
When you multiplied both sides by a NEGATIVE number, what WAS negative became positive, and what WAS positive became negative! Everything that was larger became small, and what was smaller became large. Everything REVERSED

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