You subtract 13,270 by 6,570 and you get 6,700 pieces of blue paper. Then, you subtract 6,700 by 2,600 and you get 4,100 pieces of yellow paper. Finally, you add the total of pieces of white, blue, and yellow paper and you get 24,070 for the total.
The answer to | − 12 + 3 | is 9 because if you add -12 + 3, you get -9. However, since it is the <em>absolute value</em>, we would make it the same number but positive.
