When you take the cube root of a negative number, is the sign of the cube root positive (+)

or negative (−)
?(1 point)

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When you take the cube root of a negative number, the sign of the cube root is negative (−). For example, the cube root of \(-8\) is \(-2\) because \((-2) \times (-2) \times (-2) = -8\).