The product of two nonzero integers is less than or equal to the both of the factors when one of them is positive and the other is negative.
For example:-
[tex]x = 9 \\
y = -5 \\ \\
Then, \\
xy = 9*(-5) = -45 \\ \\
Here, \\
xy \leq x \\
xy \leq y
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