Question

What is the sign of -1042 + 1042?

Answer 1

-1042 + 1042 = 0

The numbers -1042 and 1042 are called additive inverses since they add to zero.

0 has no sign. 0 is neither positive nor negative.

Answer 2

The sign is positive.

-1042 + 1042 = 1042 - 1042 = 0

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