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Question 341775: Could you please help me with these 2 problems. They don't seem workable to me.
A. Find the largest possible product of two negative integers whose sum is -18.
B. Find the smallest possible sum of two negative integers whose product is 16.

Thank you for your time and help!
Tara
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Could you please help me with these 2 problems. They don't seem workable to me.
A. Find the largest possible product of two negative integers whose sum is -18.
81
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B. Find the smallest possible sum of two negative integers whose product is 16.
-17 (-1 and -16)