Solve (-14) + (-13): Adding Negative Numbers on a Number Line

Solve the following equation using the number line below:

$(-14)+(-13)=$

Let's first locate the number negative 14 on the number line.

Now let's look at the operation in the exercise, since the operation is $+(-13)$

Given that negative 13 is less than 0, we will move thirteen steps to the left from negative 14, where each step represents one whole number as follows:

We can see that the number we reached is negative 27.