Anyone reviewing your work later, very possibly including you, is likely to spot the "mistake" when they see a positive numerator and a positive denominator yielding a negative quotient in the above and "fix" it, thus messing things up. Let the math do its work.For such a simple circuit we don't have to use the mesh analysis to solve such simple circuit it. Save the mash/nodal analysis for more complex circuits.
For the first case (without the current source) we can find
Ix' = 3.5V /(15Ω + 10Ω) = - 0.14A but we need to give it a minus sign because Ix' current flows in the opposite direction to the Ix current
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