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The reciprocal of a positive rational number is always negative.
If true then enter $1$ and if false then enter $0$

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False
Reciprocal is the multiplicative inverse of the number.
Thus, if $a$ is the positive number, then its reciprocal is $\frac{1}{a}$ which is again positive.

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