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Question from Nadiyah, a student: i dont understand how to answer this question ; |
Hi,
The key to this problem is that if $k$ is any number then
\[\frac{k}{-2} = \frac{-k}{2} = - \frac{k}{2} = - \frac{1}{2} \times k.\]
Hence
\[\frac{-16 \times 6}{-2} = - \frac12 \times -16 \times 6.\]
Does this help?
Penny
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