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Exsplain how to use a number line to show that opposite quantities combine to make 0.

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  1. Add a positive number to a number by counting up from that number, and add a negative number to a.
  2. number by counting down from that number.
  3. An integer plus its opposite sum to zero.
  4. The opposite of a number is called the additive inverse because the two numbers' sum is zero.
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