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What is the sign of a•(-b/b) when a = 0 and b <0

What is the sign of a•(-b/b) when a = 0 and b <0-example-1
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Answer:

zero

Explanation:

Here, we want to get the sign of the expression

since a is zero, it multiplies any value in the brackets to be zero too

zero is neither positive nor negative

What this mean is that we can only explicitly classify the sign as zero

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