Adding negatives is exactly the same as taking away the positive number.
Alternatively you can think of it as "imagine both the numbers are positive, add them together. This number is then negative. And you're done".
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No- adding negative numbers is like adding positive numbesr , except the answer is negative.
A negative.
Adding Integers To add integers, one must consider the following two rules to be a successful. If you want to think of it on the number line you start from 0 and when you add a positive number you...
the addition of integers is when adding negative and positive integers
It is the same thing, since "integers" consists of positive and negative numbers (and zero).