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An environmental consultant uses the inequality 3x2+x12>0\frac{3}{x^2 + x - 12} > 0 to determine safe soil contamination levels. To map out risk zones, the consultant factors the denominator into (x+4)(x3)(x + 4)(x - 3) to identify where the model is undefined. These values, called partition numbers, divide the number line into test intervals. If the first partition number is -4, the second partition number is ____.

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