SOLUTION: which is smaller, -5 or -17?

Question 1047433: which is smaller, -5 or -17?
Answer by MathLover1(20849) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!

which is smaller, or :
To compare these two values, let's think about the distance that they are from zero. The farther a value is from zero, the smaller that value.
In this case, is farther away from zero than . So, is the smaller value.
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