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Splane how you would decide whether the product of three numbers is positive or negative

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Since a positive number times a negative number is negative, but a negative number times a negative number is positive, if there are an odd number of negative numbers it is negative but it is otherwise positive (so if there are an even number of negative numbers it's positive)
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