Question

What number is smaller number -5 or -15? Explain your answer. Please help college math basic algebra

Answer 1

-15 is the smaller number because the further you go into the negatives like -30, -47, -52; youre getting further away from 0 and after 0 are positive numbers so -15 would be the smaller number

Answer 2

-5 is bigger because it is closer to zero on the number line. This is because negative numbers get smaller and smaller the farther they are from zero.