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when adding a negative number to a postive number how do you know which sign to use?

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document.write( "When adding a negative number to a positive number,\r\n" );
document.write( "we subtract their absolute values using basic math\r\n" );
document.write( "subtraction, and use the sign of whichever number \r\n" );
document.write( "has the larger absolute value.\r\n" );
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