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No, it will be a positive. Subtracting a negative number is the same as adding its negative value, which is a positive number.

4 - (-3) = 4 + 3 = 7

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For 5-(-7), when there is a negative of a negative, you cross out the negatives and put a plus in their place.

See 5+7 and then you solve the problem, 12.

Some problems may look like this:

6-(-8)+9-(-4) the way you solve this problem is by working from left to right.

6+8=14+9-(-4), so what you do here is 14+9 first, 14+9=23-(-4). Now you do 23-(-4), 23+4=27. Thats how you solve a problem like that.

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Positive (Plus) times Negative (Minus) always equals a negative (minus).


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