SOLUTION: explain: -14-8+10-(-6)= ?? I get = 10 and 38 help I have trouble only with the substraction. I can do the addition, division and multiplication of positive and negative nu

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Question 13652: explain: -14-8+10-(-6)= ??
I get = 10 and 38
help I have trouble only with the substraction. I can do the addition, division and multiplication of positive and negative numbers. I just do not get the substraction of - / + nos.
Thanks
Answer by mystic1306(20) About Me  (Show Source):
You can put this solution on YOUR website!
-14-8+10-(-6)
first -(-6) makes 6 because you are multipling a negitive times a positive which make a positive
rewrite the problem
-14-8+10+6
now take it in steps
-14-8= -22
10+6= 16
-22+16= -6
So..
-14-8+10-(-6)=
-14-8 +10+6=
-22 + 16 = -6