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Describe a real world situation that showed -5 and +5 equal 0.

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If you have a membership for a gym and you have $0.  you have to pay tomorrow but you dont get paid till next week. Next week you get paid $5 and pay it back.
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How about using a thermometer as a real life situation. The temperature was 5 degrees outside. Later on, it went 5 degrees below what is the temperature now.
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