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Put this in your calculator and shmoop it...

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When an integer is multiplied by itself four times, the result can be...

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I. Positive II. Negative III. Equal to zero

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And here are the potential answers...

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So what is this question asking?

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In short... it's testing our number sense.

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Let's start with a positive number.

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The easiest number to choose is 1.

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Multiply 1 by itself 4 times... and we get 1.

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Now let's try a negative number.

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We're going to be insanely creative and pick... negative 1.

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Multiply it by itself 4 times and we get...

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-1 times -1... that's positive 1. Times -1 is negative 1. Times -1 again is positive 1.

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Now we know that both the positive and negative cases will give us a positive answer.

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We've only got one number left to try. Multiply by 0.

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0 by 0 by 0 by 0... it's just 0

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Never going to be anything different.

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When we tested these three cases, we saw that

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the only possible outcomes were a positive number or 0.

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The answer is B. As in, "Boo."

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