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2. Explain why a negative number divided by a positive number has a negative quotient.
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2. Explain why a negative number divided by a positive number has a negative quotient.

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Example -2 divided by 2 = -4 because if you divided a negative number by a positive it is only getting further away from the positive numbers. -2 divided by 2 moves down to spaces on a number line
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