Proving the Non-Negativity of a Decreasing Sequence with Limit 0

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Analysis Proof Help!

If anyone could give me a hint on how to start this I would appreciate it! I am struggling with proofs! Thanks!

Given a sequence (asub(n))
s.t.
(i) the sequence is decreasing
(ii) the limit of the sequence is 0.
Prove rigorously that an is greater than or equal to 0 for every n contained in the natural numbers
 
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a_n\rightarrow 0 if \forall \epsilon >0\exists \bar{n}\backepsilon' \forall n>\bar{n}, |a_n|<\epsilon.
Try to prove that, if a_{\bar{n}}<0, with a particular choice of epsilon the limit definition is not verified.
Remember to consider the fact that the sequence is decreasing
 
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