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document.write( "Subtraction means to add the opposite\r<BR>\n" );
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document.write( "1 + (-2)\r<BR>\n" );
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document.write( "To add numbers with unlike signs, we subtract the smaller absolute value<BR>\n" );
document.write( "from the larger, and put on the sign of the number with the larger<BR>\n" );
document.write( "absolute value.\r<BR>\n" );
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document.write( "1 has absolute value 1<BR>\n" );
document.write( "-2 has absolute value 2\r<BR>\n" );
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document.write( "2 is larger than 1<BR>\n" );
document.write( "We subtract 2-1 and get 1<BR>\n" );
document.write( "Then we notice that -2 has the larger absolute value, and it has a<BR>\n" );
document.write( "negative sign, so we put a negative sign on the 1, and the answer is\r<BR>\n" );
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document.write( "-1 </SPAN>\n" );
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