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Find the First Negative Number

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From the lesson: Python break, continue, pass: Controlling Loop Flow

You're searching through a phone book for your friend's number. Once you find it, do you keep flipping through every remaining page? Of course not - you stop. Or imagine you're reading a list of emails. You skip the spam and only read the real ones. These are everyday examples of controlling the flow of a loop.

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Use a for loop with break to find and print the first negative number in the list. Print "Found: " followed by the number.

Expected output:

Found: -3
numbers = [4, 7, 2, -3, 8, -1, 5]
# Find and print the first negative number using break

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