SOLUTION: what are the conditions when a sum of a positive number and several negative numbers will be positive

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Question 505229: what are the conditions when a sum of a positive number and several negative numbers will be positive
Answer by CubeyThePenguin(3113) About Me  (Show Source):
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Let the positive number be a and the negative numbers be b, c, d, e.

a + b + c + d + e > 0
a > -b - c - d - e

The number "a" has to be larger than the negative sum of the other four numbers.