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Sign Rules in Manufacturing Quality Control

In a manufacturing plant, a quality control technician uses negative numbers to record measurements that fall below the required specification. If the technician needs to calculate the average deviation for a batch by dividing a negative total deviation by a positive number of parts (for example, 63÷7-63 \div 7), what is the mathematical rule for the sign of the resulting quotient?

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