Question

What is the answer: -4 - 2

Answer 1

The answer to -4-2 is -6

Answer 2

First change -4 - 2 to -4 + -2.

Now we can use our number line to

help us visualize what's going on.

Starting at 0, -4 moves us 4 units to the left along our number line.

From there, another -2 moves us 2 more units to

the left along the number line and we end up at -6.

So -4 + -2 simplifies to -6.

Work shown below.