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If x and y are integers and x < y, how do the opposite of y and the opposite x compare?

User Rex Kerr
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If you multiply the equation: x < y times -1
(-1)*x < (-1)*y
then you have to flip the sign.
-x > -y
So how can youdescribe them now?
User Xono
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