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    <p>\Help! My homework is due by 12am tonight and I can't seem to get my program to output a negative number as -1/4 rather than 1/-4! It's frustrating me because the thing is, I cannot just place a "-" in front of my numbers (which as you can see in my program below, I have commented out). My attempt at getting fraction to be -1/4 (just using this fraction as an example) is under the "public RationalNumber(int...) { line: you see the part where I have *-1 written? Where did I go wrong in that step that led me to get 1/-4? This is frustrating me... Thanks in advance. </p> <pre><code>private int n; private int d; public RationalNumber(int numerator, int denominator) { if (denominator == 0) { throw new IllegalArgumentException(); } if (denominator &lt; 0) { denominator = denominator * -1; numerator = numerator * -1; } n = numerator; d = denominator; simplified(); } public RationalNumber add(RationalNumber rn) { int comDenom = d * rn.getDenominator(); int num1 = n * rn.d; int num2 = rn.n * d; d = comDenom; return new RationalNumber(num1 + num2, d); } public RationalNumber subtract(RationalNumber rn) { int num1 = n * rn.d; int num2 = rn.n * d; return new RationalNumber(num1 - num2, d); } public RationalNumber multiply(RationalNumber rn) { int numer = n * rn.n; int denom = d * rn.d; return new RationalNumber(numer, denom); } public RationalNumber divide(RationalNumber rn) { int numer = n * rn.d; int denom = d * rn.n; return new RationalNumber(numer, denom); } public RationalNumber() { n = 0; d = 1; } public boolean equals(RationalNumber o) { return (n == o.getNumerator() &amp;&amp; d == o.getDenominator()); } public int getDenominator() { return d; } public int getNumerator() { return n; } public String toString() { //Prints everything here. if (d == 1) { return "" + n; } if (n == 0) { return "0"; } /*if ((n &lt; 0) || (d &lt; 0)) { return "-" + Math.abs(n) + "/" + Math.abs(d); }*/ return n + "/" + d; } private void simplified() { if (n != 0) { int cDenom = gcd(n, d); n = n / cDenom; d = d / cDenom; } } private int gcd(int gcdNum1, int gcdNum2) { while (gcdNum1 != 0 &amp;&amp; gcdNum2 != 0) { int tempNum = gcdNum2; gcdNum2 = gcdNum1 % gcdNum2; gcdNum1 = tempNum; } return gcdNum1 + gcdNum2; } </code></pre>
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