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How would you work out -12x-3?

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Harry G

Two negatives make a positive. Multiplying a negative number by another negative number, therefore, equals a positive number. The same holds for division.


How would you work out -12 x -3?


Applying the rule above:


-12 x -3

= 12 x 3

= 36


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