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As soon as cavemen started trading handfuls of corn for women or bags of meat,
they were using integers. They didn't know it, however, because the word hadn't
been invented yet. It was several centuries, indeed millenia, before the word was
invented, but once it became available, it certainly made math a lot easier.
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What are three consecutive odd integers that add up to -27?
The integers are -11, -9 and -7.
What integers add up to 96?
Many of them.
What careers do you use integers for?
I'm thinking that a stock marketer uses integers to symbolize if a stock has gone up or down.
Why is it important to learn how to subtract and add with different integers?
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