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When is the sum of a positive and negative integer negative?
When the absolute value of the positive integer is smaller than the absolute value of the negative one.
How can you predict the sign of the sum of a positive and a negative integer before you add the numbers?
If the absolute value of the positive integer is greater than the absolute value of the negative integer, then the sum of the two will be positive.If the absolute value of the positive integer is less than the absolute value of the negative integer, then the sum will be negative.If the absolute values of the two integers are the same then the sum will be zero, which has neither a negative nor a positive sign.
What is a absolute value of a negative integer?
The absolute value of an integer is the integer with a positive sign.
Is it positive or negative answer if there is a negative plus a positive?
It depends. No matter what, you subtract the two quantities. If the absolute value of the positive integer is greater than the absolute value of the negative integer, your answer is positive. If the absolute value of the negative integer is greater than the absolute value of the positive integer, your answer is negative.For example:-32+11 is -21, because the absolute value of -32 is greater than the absolute value of 11, and 32 is negative.-11+32 is 21, because the absolute value of 32 is greater than the absolute value of 11, and 32 is positive.If this is all confusing, I like to remember a song my seventh grade math teacher taught the class to the tune of "row row row your boat:"same sign add and keepdifferent sign subtractkeep the sign of the larger numberthen you'll be exact!"(the word "sign" refers to negative or positive)
When is the sum of a positive integer and a negative integer zero?
When the absolute value of the positive integer is the same as the absolute value of the negative one.
