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(-71) + (+47) = ??and would the number be negative or positive?

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If you add a positive number to a negative one, whose absolute value is less than the absolute value of the negative number, the result will be negative:

|71|>|41|

So


-71+47

Is the same as doing


47-71

The result is -24

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