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Please help me with this -2 - (-0.7)

Please help me with this -2 - (-0.7)-example-1
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Anytime you subtract a negative number, it changes it to adding a positive number.

-2 + 0.7

Since we are adding, we will have an arrow going to the right

-2 + 0.7 = -1.3

Therefore, we will have a point starting at -2, an arrow pointing to the right and stopping at -1.3

Best of Luck!

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