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I'm not sure of what you mean but I might have an idea.

You can think of negative as money such as I owed you $5 so I would be at -5 but when I payed you back I would be at 0, but if I payed you a dollar extra you would be at -1 [ do you understand:(]

Positive is very simple it is how you learned to count.

When you have 2 positives or two negatives you go up towards the positives, but if you ave a positive and a negative you go down towards the negatives

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