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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.

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