How do you find the difference #10-15#?

1 Answer
Jan 10, 2017

This is just one way of many

#-5#

Explanation:

Given: #" "color(green)(10)color(red)(-15)#

Split the #color(red)(-15)# into #color(red)(-10-5)#

Then when we put it all together we have:

#color(green)(10)color(red)(-10-5)#

But 10-10 = 0 giving

#0-5# which is the same as #-5#