#17 . i just don't understand the question.

This can go in 2 ways:

If the symbol is negative then the answer is negative

If the symbol is positive then the answer is positive

I think the answer is negative. This is because in the first part, the sign of the product is positive. We know that multiplying two negatives gives you a positive, and multiplying a negative with a positive gives you a negative. So, if two integers were being multiplied, and their product was a positive, that means they were negative. For the second part, when we multiply 3 integers with the same sign, this will get us a negative answer. For example -3 * -3 * -3 = - 27. Multiplying -3 with -3 gave us positive 9, and multiplying positive 9 with a  - 3 gave us -27. So, I think the sign of the product of three integers with the same sign is negative. Hope this helps.

Are you trying to figure out the volume?