Answer:
It depends in which direction "away" means. If they are five units to the right then the answer should be 1. if they are 5 points away to the left then the answer would be -9.
Step-by-step explanation:
Basically it depends,
if its indicating to the right the equation would be=
-4+5=x
which to do this negative cancells out its positive, so you can just subtract their absolute values. 5-4=1. And to know which symbol it has you just indicate which factor has the greated absolute value. (aka 5 which is positive so the answer should be positive).
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if its to the left then the equation would be=
-4-5= x
(negative four subtracted by four)
and the easier way to do this would be to turn this equation into addition.
the new equation shall be: -4+(-5)=-9 since they are both negative integers the sum should be negative.
