A company wants to encrypt a document containing important passwords. To do this, the product of a positive number and a negative number will need to be minimized. If the positive number is 9 greater than the negative number, what is the minimum product of the two numbers? O-20.25 O-11.25 -8 O-4.5

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A company wants to encrypt a document containing important passwords. To do this, the product of a positive number and a negative number will need to be minimized. If the positive number is 9 greater than the
negative number, what is the minimum product of the two numbers?
O-20.25
O-11.25
-8
O-4.5
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