Question

by how much does -3 exceed -5?

Answer 1

Given: Numericals- -3 and -5

To find: How much -3 exceeds -5

Solution:

Excess means above , or more than.

In the question  , -3 exceed -5 , to get the answer of that , we need to just subtract the second term (here -5) from the first term ( here -3).

So, you need to simply subtract -5 from -3

       -3-(-5)=2 ---[ans]

or , in the other words,

The number that when we added to -5 produce the number -3 is being found as the following:

    Answer  -3-(-5)=2

Hence -3 exceeds -5 by 2

Answer 2

Answer:

Given : Two numbers are -$3$ and -$5$

To find : Difference between -$3$ and -$5$

Solution :

To find the difference between numbers, we will subtract small number from the big one.

∴  $-3$ - (-$5$)

  = $-3+5$         ( ∵- × - = +)

  = $2$    

∴ $-3$ exceeds $-5$ by 2.