Herbie has been asked to create a poster on subtraction of integers. His theme problem is 12 -20-(-5) Write a word problem for H

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Herbie has been asked to create a poster on subtraction of integers. His theme problem is 12 -20-(-5) Write a word problem for H

erbie to go with the theme problem. Then illustrate or explain how to solve the theme problem

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Tanzania [10] · Answer 1 · 2022-08-04T09:41:55+03:00

Tanzania [10]3 years ago

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The answer is -13, say Herbie has 12 papers, then he losses 20 of them. At that point herbie has -8 papers, but then he loses 5 more papers. Equaling -13. It doesn’t quite make sense, but it works.