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Luisa claims that when she subtract two negative integers the result is always positive. Is she correct? Explain.

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No the answer won't always be positive sometimes it will be negative like if you subtract two negative numbers
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No the answer is not always postive. For example. If you had -50 and subtracted -30 you would have -20.
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