Question

Answer the problem. Illustrate your work in the box. Which is greater, -3 + (-5) or -3 +5? Locate both numbers on the number line to get the correct answer.​

Answer 1

Answer:

By using the same procedure, point O represents 0/3 and point A represents 3/3. Thus, we have 0/3 = 0 and 3/3 = 1. In order to represent 3/5 on a number line, we divide the gap between 0 and 1 into 5 equal parts and take first 3 parts from 0 as shown below.