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Price Jerde
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Graduate medical student with 2 previous degrees
-4 + 6 is the same as calculating 6 - 4,
which equals 2
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To visualise it in your head, think of a number line:
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-5 -4 -3 -2 -1 0 1 2 3 4 5 6
You start at -4
And since you are "adding 6", you want to move 6 places to the right, going up the number line
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-5 -4 -3 -2 -1 0 1 2 3 4 5 6
Therefore, -4+6 = 2
Hope this helps :)
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