Big Ideas Math: Modeling Real Life, Grade 7
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4. Factorizing Expressions
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Exercise 5 Page 113

Subtracting can be thought of as going left on the number line.

- 10.3

Practice makes perfect
Let's perform the subtraction. - 4.7 - 5.6 = - 10.3 Below we will demonstrate by finding - 4.7 and moving 5.6 units to the left on the number line.

The resulting position, after moving to the left for the second time, is the difference. - 4.7 - 5.6 = - 10.3