Adding two numbers with different signs means subtracting the two absolute integers (without sign) and vice versa.
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Because otherwise you would only know how to subtract and add with the same integers. Not a particularly useful skill unless just those integers turned up!
It is important to add and subtract integers: to get a new integer value in mathematics .
If the integers have the same sign (poitive or negative) you should add them together. If they have a different sign you subtract the numbers and the answer will take the sign of the number with the greatest absolute value (the number farthest from zero on a numberline) in the problem.
First, subtract the absolute values of the integers, then use the greater absolute value's sign.
to subtract an integer, add its opposite or additive inverse.