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By treating it as a positive number. Since negative numbers include the factors of their positive counterparts and all positive numbers are greater than all negative numbers, the GCF will always be positive.

The GCFs of (3, 9), (3, -9), (-3, 9) and (-3, -9) are all the same: positive 3.

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