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Inventory Audit and the Properties of Zero

A warehouse manager is auditing an inventory spreadsheet and needs to simplify three specific calculation results generated by a system error:

  1. −8⋅0-8 \cdot 0
  2. 0−2\frac{0}{-2}
  3. −320\frac{-32}{0}

Based on the properties of zero, state the simplified result for each of these three expressions.

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