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Lindsay owes her cousin $9. This debt is represented by the integer -9. If lindsay repays one third of this debt which rational number represents her new debt to her cousin
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Lindsay owes her cousin $9. This debt is represented by the integer -9. If lindsay repays one third of this debt which rational number represents her new debt to her cousin

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One third of -9 is 3.

-9+3=-6

she owes her cousin $6

which can also be written in a rational integer as:

-6
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