General Chemistry. I'm stuck!?

Posted on 2014-10-16 07:06:00 in Chemistry by GIRLIN

I got this so far...
qCu=-1670
qwater=1926

Knowing the qCu and qwater, we get the qcalorimeter, which is equal to:
-(qCu + qwater)

That gives me -256.
Now, it says solve for specific heat of the calorimeter C by using this:

qcalorimeter=C x (Tf-Ti)

My final temp- initial temp is 8 degrees C, so I divide -256 by 8 which gives me -32,but the book says it's supposed to be a positive number!
I don't know what I'm doing wrong.

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