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how do you get the positive x ^1? Do you divided by -1?

Answer provided by our tutors

The equation will not change if you divide or multiply by (-1) on both sides of the equation.
So, you can either say that you divided both side by (-1) or you multiplied both sides by (-1) to get the solution:

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