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Is -17/-40 equal to -0.425

User Mushtaq Ahmed
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no its would be 0.425 because negative and negative is a positive
User Bogdan Sahlean
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No, because if you do -17/-40 you would get a positive answer of 0.425 and it would not equal -0.425.

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