It depends on the way you want to perform the subtraction. Reading the content of the question, I'll assume you want to subtract a positive number from a negative number.
Actually, this can be done quite easily. Remember when you were taught that adding two negative numbers results in an even lesser negative number? You can do the same with a negative and a positive.
For example: -5 + -5 = -10, when adding two negativenumbers.
But with -5 - 5, you can simply count to the left: -5, -6, -7, -8, -9, -10.
Or, you can convert this to a negative number and add the numbers together, arriving at the same result.
Hope this helps, let me know if you have any more issues regarding negative numbers.
positive is to add and negative is to subtract in math
No, you add the positive to the negative.
If you subtract a negative from a positive, add both of their absolute values. If you subtract a positive from a negative, add both of their absolute values and multiply by negative one.
subtract the negative from the positive
If you subtract positive twenty-seven from negative sixty-nine, you would get negative forty-two. You simply subtract the 27 from the 69 but leave the negative sign.
A little awkwardly phrased, so I'll answer both ways. To subtract a negative from anything, add its positive. To subtract a positive from a negative, the equation is treated as though you are adding two postives, the result is negative.
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It can be a negative or positive fraction, a negative or positive integer, or zero.
That is correct. If you subtract a positive number from a negative number, your result is negative.
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Subtracting a negative is like adding a positive; the result will be positive.
That is correct. If you subtract a positive number from a negative number, your result is negative.