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A manufacturing analyst is simplifying the expression 4y² - 36y + 56 to optimize production costs. In the final step of factoring the resulting trinomial (y² - 9y + 14), both numbers in the factor pair must be negative because the middle coefficient (-9) is negative and the constant term (14) is positive.

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