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A student wrote the following conjecture. Find a counterexample and explain the error. If x is a positive even number and y is any integer, then the product xy will be positive.

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A possible counterexample is when yy is 0 or any negative integer, say y=2y=-2. Since xx is positive, then then product xyxy will be negative in this case.

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