The answer is always a positive number or zero. In this case just change the sign....+6 is your answer.
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When adding positive 9 and negative 6, we can think of it as combining two numbers with opposite signs. To find the sum, we subtract the absolute value of the smaller number from the absolute value of the larger number. In this case, the absolute value of 9 is 9, and the absolute value of 6 is 6. So, 9 - 6 equals 3. Therefore, positive 9 plus negative 6 equals positive 3.
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The absolute value of a number means how far a number is from zero.The absolute value of 6 would be 6 since it is 6 away from 0. For negative 6 it would also be 6 because it is still 6 away from 0.