Question

HURRY PLEASE HELP. Point J is located at – 4. Points K and L are each 5 units away from Point J. Where are K and L located?

Answer 1

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.