SOLUTION: The sum of two integers is between -20 and -4. If you subtract these two integers, the difference is a negative number close to 0. List four possible pairs of integers.

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Question 1150750: The sum of two integers is between -20 and -4. If you subtract these two integers, the difference is a negative number close to 0. List four possible pairs of integers.
Answer by greenestamps(13214) About Me  (Show Source):
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Difference close to 0 means the two integers are close together.

Sum between -4 and -20, along with the integers being close together, means each of the integers is (approximately) between -2 and -10.

Since the difference (first integer minus second) is to be negative, the first number has to be the smaller (i.e., more negative).

So examples are
-5 and -4
-8 and -7
-10 and -6

etc....