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Properties of Multiplication of Integers

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Question 90

State whether the statement is True or False.

Product of a negative integer and a positive integer is a positive integer.

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False
Product of a negative integer and a positive integer is a negative integer i.e. $a \times (- b) = - a b$
where a and b are two positive integers.

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