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Adding Integers

Adding integers on a number line involves determining whether the answer is positive or negative. If both numbers are negative, the answer will be negative by moving further left. If the numbers have the same sign, the answer takes that sign. If the numbers have opposite signs, they cancel out to equal zero. Whenever a negative and a negative are added, it makes the negative number bigger by moving further left.

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Adding Integers

Adding integers on a number line involves determining whether the answer is positive or negative. If both numbers are negative, the answer will be negative by moving further left. If the numbers have the same sign, the answer takes that sign. If the numbers have opposite signs, they cancel out to equal zero. Whenever a negative and a negative are added, it makes the negative number bigger by moving further left.

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You can add integers on the number line by determining if the final answer is right or left. If the answer is positive then the answer goes on the right side of the number line and if it is negative it goes on the left side. To determine the answer the first thing you do is determine which numbers have negatives and which have positives. This matters because if the number are both negative then you can determine that the answer is going to be negative, because adding more negatives to a negative makes it a bigger negative. On the number line you can do this same trick but do it using the numbers on the number line. For example if you have -5 + -6 you know that this is making a negative number so you move it to the left where the negative numbers are, then you move it 11 spots because 5 + 6 = 11. This making the answer to that problem-11. Next if you were adding positive number you would do the same thing that you id with the negative numbers only this time move the total to the right where the positive answers are.

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Anytime you add the same two numbers with opposite signs the answer will always be 0. This is because when you add these two numbers they equal out. Also when you have 5 and then you take five away again it equals 0.

When a yellow and a red chip come together they equal zero because they cancel out.

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Each time a negative and a negative come together they make a bigger negative number.

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A rule with adding numbers with different signs is whichever number is higher, the answer will use the sign of that problem, see the examples below.

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A rule with adding numbers with the same sign is whichever sign both of them have the answer will be that sign, see the examples below.

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