How do you simplify #6--10+ -4#?

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Mila W.
Mar 10, 2018

6 + 10 - 4 = 12

Explanation:

By the rules of negatives and positives in math, two negatives makes a positive, so 6 - - 10 = 6 + 10. However, a positive and a negative makes a negative, so 10 + - 4 = 10 - 4.

This makes the resulting equation 6 + 10 - 4. By PEMDAS, it does not matter which you do first (addition and subtraction are 'equally important'), so going from left to right, 6 + 10 - 4 = 16 - 4 = 12.

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