Big Ideas Math: Modeling Real Life, Grade 7
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3. Adding Rational Numbers
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Exercise 19 Page 21

When calculating the sum of two numbers with the same sign, we add their absolute values.

- 57.19

Practice makes perfect
We want to find the sum and simplify the result of the addition. Let's look at the given expression! - 32.306+( - 24.884) Now, we can find the sum of two rational numbers with the same sign. Recall that we can do so by adding their absolute values. Let's do it!
|- 32.306|+|- 24.884|
32.306+|- 24.884|
32.306+24.884
57.19
Recall that both numbers were negative. This means that the sum is also a negative number, - 57.19.