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Let's locate negative 4 on the number line.
Since negative 4 is less than 0, we'll move four steps left from zero, where each step represents one whole number as follows:
Now let's look at the operation in the exercise.
Since the operation is
And since 7 is greater than 0, we'll move seven steps to the right from negative 4, where each step represents one whole number as follows:
We can see that we arrived at the number 3.
a is negative number.
b is negative number.
What is the sum of a+b?
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