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Please help me with Solve -8 - 5 and one fourteenth = negative seven eighths . Express the solution as a mixed number in simplest form.Also please show the steps how to solve

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Answer:-8-5=-13, and i don't understand the second part

Explanation:

if you think about a number line, adding negative 5 to negative 8 will only bring it "more negative"

same signs, add and keep the signs. different sign subtract, then keep the sign of the bigger number.

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