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What happens when you subtract a positive number from a negative number?

What happens when you subtract a positive number from a negative number?
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What happens when you subtract a positive number from a negative number?

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When you see minus sign and a negative sign together, it turns the two signs into a plus sign. Example:

5-(-2)
=5+2
=7
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