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What does positive 3 and negative 5 equal?

Updated: 8/18/2019
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-2

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-2 if you add them.

+8 if you subtract them

-15 if you multiply them

-0.6 if you divide them

"... and ..." is pretty ambiguous as a mathematical operator.

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