Question

What is the sum?

1.3+(−2.4)

Enter your answer, as a decimal, in the box.

Answer 1

In order to perform the soulution to this problem we must know:

When adding a postitive and a negative together makes it negative.

Now as we look at this problem we can take the + and the - sign and make it a - sign

We now have 1.3(-2.4)

We may get rid of the parentheses and perform this problem by setting up the equation

1.3-2.4

Your answer would be -1.1

I hope this helps