href="#fb3_img_img_84126344-809d-5f89-85ac-1a1df200b29c.png" alt="math"/>. The point of the inequality always goes toward the smaller of the two numbers.
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11 −2. The following number line shows that the number –2 is to the right of –8. The number –8 is farther from 0, so it is the smaller of the two numbers.
12 –1. The number –1 is to the right of –13. The number –13 is farther from 0.
13 –0.003. The following number line shows that the number –0.003 is to the right of –0.03, which means –0.003 is bigger than –0.03. You can also rewrite –0.03 as –0.030 for easier comparison.
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15 3!
16 Neither.
17 5!
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19 +1. The number 4 has the greater absolute value, so the answer is positive.
20 –6. The number –11 has the greater absolute value, so the answer is negative.
21 –23. Both of the numbers have negative signs; when the signs are the same, find the sum of their absolute values.
22 14. Number 47 has the greater absolute value.
23 0.
24 –20.
25 –3.
Or you may prefer to add the two numbers with the same sign first, like this:
26 –6. You can do this because order and grouping (association) don’t matter in addition.
You see more on the associative property in Chapter 3.
27 7. Change the –2 to +2 and the subtraction to addition. The signs are the same now, so find the sum.
28 2. Change the –8 to +8 and the subtraction to addition. The signs are different now, so find the difference.
29 –83. Change the +87 to –87 and the subtraction to addition. Yes, it looks like the 87 is negative, but that is the operation of subtraction, not the sign of the number.
30 15. Change the –15 to +15 and the subtraction to addition.
31 9.2. Change the –6.8 to +6.8 and the subtraction to addition.
32 –4. Change the –11 to +11 and the subtraction to addition.
33 –18. The multiplication problem has one negative, and 1 is an odd number.
34 –14. The multiplication problem has one negative, and 1 is an odd number.
35 18. The multiplication problem has two negatives, and 2 is an even number.
