Rules to add Positive and Negative Numbers

Multiple Choice

Fill in the blanks:

When you add integers with the same sign, you add the numbers and ______ ____ ________.

• turn it negative

• keep the sign

• make it positive

• forget the rest

Multiple Choice

Fill in the blanks: When you are adding integers with different signs, ____________ the numbers and keep the sign of the integer with the greatest __________ value.

• subtract, absolute

• add, direct

• divide, number

• multiply, negative

Multiple Choice

When you add two negative numbers your answer will be:

• opposites

• positive

• negative

• wrong

Multiple Choice

Define Absolute Value

• The distance a number is from zero
• The highest number in the number line
• The opposite of the value

Multiple Choice

Fill in the blanks:

When you add integers with the same sign, you add the numbers and ______ ____ ________.

• turn it negative

• keep the sign

• make it positive

• forget the rest

Multiple Choice

At 2pm, the temperature was 15 degrees. By midnight, the temperature dropped by 30 degrees. What is the temperature at midnight?

• 45 degrees
• -45 degrees
• 15 degrees
• -15 degrees

Multiple Choice

When you add opposites, what do you get?

• 0
• A negative number
• Attraction
• You cannot add opposites

Multiple Choice

Put in order from least to greatest.
-5, 0, -3, 5, -2, 4, 1

• -2, -3, -5, 0, 1, 4, 5
• -5, -3, -2, 0, 1, 4, 5
• 5, 4, 1, 0, -2, -3, -5
• 0, 1, -2, -3, 4, -5, 5

Multiple Choice

Which integer represents a withdrawal from your bank account of $50

• -$50
• $50
• +$50

Multiple Choice

Boston has a temperature of -20 degrees. It is colder in New York than in Boston. Select the value that could represent the temperature of New York

• 0
• 30
• -30
• -19

Multiple Choice

Find the sum.

-9 + (-5)

• 14

• -14

• 4

• -4

Multiple Choice

Fill in the blanks: When you are adding integers with different signs, ____________ the numbers and keep the sign of the integer with the greatest __________ value.

• subtract, absolute

• add, direct

• divide, number

• multiply, negative

Multiple Choice

When you add two negative numbers your answer will be:

• opposites

• positive

• negative

• wrong

Multiple Choice

When you add two positive numbers, your answer will be:

• negative

• wrong

• divided

• positive

Multiple Choice

Define Absolute Value

• The distance a number is from zero
• The highest number in the number line
• The opposite of the value

Multiple Choice

-5 + 9 =

• 4

• -14

• -4

• 14

Fill in the Blank

-2 + (-3) =

Multiple Choice

-14 + (-3)

• -17
• 11
• -11
• 17

Multiple Choice

-10 + 10

• 20
• 0
• -20
• 1,000,000

Multiple Choice

-9 + (-5)

• -14
• 14
• -4

Multiple Choice

Which represents the absolute value of 10?

• 10

• -10

• -1/10

• 11

Multiple Choice

What's a way to define absolute value?

• The value of a number
• The opposite of a number
• The distance of a number from zero
• The multiplicative inverse of a number

Multiple Choice

| –3 |

• 3
• -3
• 0.30
• 30

Multiple Choice

What number is the opposite of 2?

• -2

• 2

Multiple Choice

How do you know that 5 and -5 are opposites? 

• Because they both have a 5 
• They are the same distance from 0 and on opposite sides of 0 
• Because they are the same 
• They both are on a number line