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This works because</p>\n<p>\\[11-25=-(25-11)=-14.\\]&nbsp;</p>\n<p>So if we swap the order of subtraction, we need to put a negative out the front, but this is the same as just multiplying by $-1$ since $-(25-11)=-1\\times(25-11)$, which is also the same as dividing by $-1$.</p>\n<p></p>\n<p><strong>Therefore, reversing the order of a subtraction is the same as multiplying (or dividing) by $-1$.</strong></p>\n<p></p>\n<p>a)</p>\n<p><span data-jme-visible=\"seed=0\">To determine if $\\frac{\\var{c}-x}{\\var{d}}$ is equal to $\\frac{x-\\var{c}}{\\var{d}}$, notice the only difference is the subtraction in the numerator is reversed. But $\\var{c}-x\\ne x-\\var{c}$. So these answers are not the same!</span></p>\n<p><span data-jme-visible=\"seed=1\">To determine if $\\frac{\\var{c}-x}{\\var{d}}$ is equal to $-\\frac{x-\\var{c}}{\\var{d}}$, notice&nbsp;</span></p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span data-jme-visible=\"seed=1\">$\\begin{align}-\\frac{x-\\var{c}}{\\var{d}}&amp;=\\frac{-(x-\\var{c})}{\\var{d}}\\\\&amp;=\\frac{-x+\\var{c}}{\\var{d}}\\\\&amp;=\\frac{\\var{c}-x}{\\var{d}}\\end{align}$</span></p>\n<p><span data-jme-visible=\"seed=1\">So the negative out the front and the reversing of the subtraction cancelled each other out, and these answers are actually the same.</span></p>\n<p></p>\n<p>b)&nbsp;</p>\n<p></p>\n<p><span data-jme-visible=\"seed=0\">You should notice that these fractions are very similar except that the order of subtraction is reversed in the numerator and the denominator. We should know that reversing the order of subtraction introduces a negative out the front, if we do this twice we will have two negatives out the front, which of course means a positive! That is,</span></p>\n<p><span data-jme-visible=\"seed=0\">$\\begin{align}\\frac{\\var{a}x^\\var{p}-\\var{b}y^\\var{q}}{\\var{c}xy-\\var{d}x^\\var{r}y^\\var{s}}&amp;=\\frac{-(\\var{b}y^\\var{q}-\\var{a}x^\\var{p})}{\\var{c}xy-\\var{d}x^\\var{r}y^\\var{s}}\\\\&amp;=\\frac{-(\\var{b}y^\\var{q}-\\var{a}x^\\var{p})}{-(\\var{d}x^\\var{r}y^\\var{s}-\\var{c}xy)}\\\\&amp;=\\frac{\\var{b}y^\\var{q}-\\var{a}x^\\var{p}}{\\var{d}x^\\var{r}y^\\var{s}-\\var{c}xy}\\end{align}$</span></p>\n<p><span data-jme-visible=\"seed=0\">So the answers are the same!</span></p>\n<p><span data-jme-visible=\"seed=1\">You should notice that in the numerator the order of subtraction has been swapped and in the denominator a $-\\var{d}x^\\var{r}y^\\var{s}$ has been replaced with $+\\var{d}x^\\var{r}y^\\var{s}$. These are not the same answers. 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