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What does how much longer mean addition or subtraction

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How much longer means subtraction, because how much longer is asking the length that one item is longer than the other, like a yardstick compared to a ruler, how much longer is the yardstick, something like that.


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That would mean subtraction, as (example)
Somebody has twenty inch paper. Another person has a ten inch paper. How much longer does that somebody's paper compare to another person's?
This means 20-10 = 10, so the answer to this is 10.

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