Why always test charge is taken as positive why cant it be negative because it is required to know the - Physics - Electric Charges And Fields

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Why always test charge is taken as positive?why cant it be negative
because it is required to know the effect of unknown charge

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Why always test charge is taken as positive?why cant it be negative because it is required to know the effect of unknown charge.