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3 years ago

Explain why the sum of -8 and 2 is negative but the sum of 8 and -2 is positive

Mathematics

2 answers:

Fiesta28 [93]3 years ago

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8 is a bigger number than 2

White raven [17]3 years ago

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8 is bigger than 2 for that

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