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prealgebra intermediate

Problem

What is the largest multiple of whose negation is greater than ?
Solution
Dividing by gives with a remainder of . In other words, This means that is greater than . Because the negation of is , is the largest multiple of whose negation is greater than .

We could also divide by to get with a positive remainder of . However, is less than , so would not help.
Final answer
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