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Let's locate negative 5 on the number line.
Since negative 5 is less than 0, we'll move five steps to the left from zero, where each step represents one whole number as follows:
Now let's look at the operation in the exercise.
Since the operation is
And negative 2 is less than 0, we'll move two steps to the left from negative 5, where each step represents one whole number as follows:
We can see that we reached negative 7.
a is negative number.
b is negative number.
What is the sum of a+b?
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