How is substraction like addition?

Anonymous

∙ 15y ago

Updated: 8/18/2019

Substraction is like addition, because you are basically adding negative number to some kind of number(s) given. For example:

45 - 3=42 <- It looks like it is substracting but it really is:

45+(-3)=42

Another example:

-10928-983=11911

(-10928)+(-983)=11911

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