SOLUTION: -5+7+(-14) ????

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Question 551258: -5+7+(-14) ????
Answer by unlockmath(1688)   (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
Hello,
Maybe if you think of these numbers as temperatures then it might help you.
-5+7+(-14)
It's minus 5 degrees and warms up 7 degrees then it would be 2 degrees above zero. But if it got 14 degrees colder then it would be minus 12 so the answer is
-12
Make sense?
RJ
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