Losing money stinks. You could say it's a negative, and that's exactly what I'm saying here to help you learn how to multiply a negative number by a positive number.

Having a real-life scenario that helps make sense of a math problem like this is really important to your sanity. Otherwise, math is just a series of rules and you have no idea why they are the way they are.

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