Integers

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What you'll learn

Positive and negative whole numbers, zero, and the rules for combining them.

**Integers** are whole numbers including negatives: \(\ldots, -2, -1, 0, 1, 2, \ldots\)
On a number line, values grow to the right and shrink to the left.
Adding a negative is the same as subtracting: \(5 + (-3) = 5 - 3 = 2\).
Subtracting a negative is the same as adding: \(4 - (-2) = 4 + 2 = 6\).
Same signs multiply to a positive, different signs to a negative: \((-3)(-2) = 6\), \((-3)(2) = -6\).