Integers

Examples:

• $-6$
• $+5$
• $+49.342$
• $-174$
• $-1.9$

Depending on the location of numbers on the number line, the following rules can be determined:

1. A positive number is always larger than a negative number. $(2>-9), (4>-11)$
2. If we have two positive numbers, the number whose absolute value is larger will be the larger number. $(3>1), (53>32), (3.6>0.689)$
3. If we have two negative numbers, the number whose absolute value is smaller will be the smaller number. $(-9>-45), (-0.432>-11.3)$

Write in the blank one of the following signs: $<, >, =$

• $-4$__ $-3.5$
• $25$ __$'5$
• $0$ __ $'3.9$
• $17$ __ $¿17$
• $+3$ __ $0$

Read the following sentences, and determine which one is true or false:

• Every positive number is greater than zero.
• The negative sign can be omitted.
• The sign is always written to the left of the number.
• "$3.98$" and "$¿3.98$" are two ways of writing the same number.
• The number $-6$ appears on the number line to the right of the number $2$.
• All negative numbers appear on the number line to the left of the number $0$.
• The number $-9$ is smaller than the number $-8.89$.

Question

What is the value we will have to input to solve the following equation?

$7^{\square}=49$

Solution

To answer this question it is possible to answer in two ways:

One way is replacement:

We place power of $2$ and it seems that we have arrived at the correct result, ie:

$7²=49$

Another way is by using the root

$\sqrt{49}=7$

That is

$7²=49$

Answer:

$2$

Question

What is the result of the following power?

$(\frac{2}{3})^3$

To solve this question we must first understand the meaning of the exercise.

$(\frac{2}{3})\cdot(\frac{2}{3})\cdot(\frac{2}{3})$

$\frac{2}{3}\cdot\frac{2}{3}\cdot\frac{2}{3}$

Now everything is simpler... Correct?

$2\cdot2\cdot2=8$

$3\cdot3\cdot3=27$

We obtain: $\frac{8}{27}$

Answer

$\frac{8}{27}$

Task

$12-\left(-2\right)=$

Solution

Pay attention that minus multiplied by minus becomes plus, and therefore

$12+2=14$

Answer

$14$

Task

$-27-\left(-7\right)+\left(-6\right)+2-11=$

Solution

First we put the signs in order.

$-27+7-6+2-11=$

Now we solve as a common exercise:

$-27+7-6+2-11=-35$

Answer

$-35$

Task

Given that:

$a$ Negative number

$b$ Negative number

What is the sum of $a+b$?

Solution

When we add two negative numbers, the result we will get will be a negative number.

Answer

Negative

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Positive numbers, negative numbers and zero

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Opposite numbers

Absolute Value

Elimination of parentheses in real numbers

Addition and subtraction of real numbers

Multiplication and division of real numbers

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Whole numbers can be written without a decimal point and never with a fraction, for example $5.83,\frac{6}{5}$ are not whole numbers. Therefore, integers are positive numbers, negative numbers (without decimal) and zero.

For example:

$\left\lbrace\ldots-5,-4,-3,-2,-1,0,1,2,3,4,5\ldots\right\rbrace$ i.e. the natural numbers with their respective negatives.

The integers can be placed on the number line in the following way:

There are rules to be able to count integers, let's look at the case of addition:

• If we add two positive integers, we only add the absolute values and keep the positive sign.

$3+5=8$

Both numbers are positive and the result is still positive.

• When adding negative numbers they are added together and the result is still negative.

$-7+\left(-5\right)=-12$

The absolute values are added, but the result is still negative.

• When we have numbers with different signs they are subtracted, that is to say, we subtract the smaller number from the larger number and the result will have the sign of the number with the larger absolute value.

$6-8=-2$

In this operation we can see that we have numbers with different signs, so we subtract them and we will put the sign of the bigger number, in this case the result is negative.

$-9+15=6$

Here we subtract the smaller number from the bigger number and in this case the result will be positive because the bigger number has a positive sign.

An integer is a neative OR positive whole number that does not have any decimal point or a number that cannot be written as a fraction.

Decimal numbers, rational numbers and irrational numbers are not integers, such as:

$1.5$

$\frac{5}{6}$

$\pi=3.141592\ldots$