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I need help on adding the same numbers but one negative and one positive?!

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say you are adding -5 + 2
It's like you owe someone 5 bucks, You give them 2 bucks. Now you only owe them 3 bucks


So it would be -3
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When you add a positive and a negative you subtract. So if I have -10+10 it would be zero because ones positive and the other is negative
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