Question

What happens when you subtract a number from a negative number?

Answer 1

Any examples of what your talking. ~ I'm some how a bit confused.

Answer 2

Oh! Um...like: -6-5=? I believe that it is -11. estudier helped me with that so I hope I remember it.

Answer 3

Thank you for your concern though. That was kind of you. :)

Answer 4

-6-5 would equal to -11 as you remembered.

Answer 5

If you subtract a number from a negative number, it just becomes even more negative. If you think of it as a number line from left to right, with negative numbers on the left, and positive on the right (with zero being teh middle), then if you subtract a number from another, then you move to the left a corresponding distance on that line. So -6 would be 6 spaces left of zero. If you subtract 5 from it, you move 5 more spaces to the left, and end up at -11.

Answer 6

think of negative numbers as being in a hole; the more dirt you subtract from the hole, the deeper you go.

Answer 7

good explanation, amistre!

Answer 8

Thank you for explaining :)