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Why is a cube root of a negative is always a negative? Need help! Thanks!

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A cube root is representaive of reverse mutiplication. E.g Square root of 4 is 2 (2x2)
Using this, we can see that anytime 3 negatives are multiplied, the answer will always be negative.
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