What are you going to learn?

To use negative numbers To draw integers in a number line To compare integers To put integers in a sequence

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Positive and Negative Numbers

In a weather forecast, it is predicted that it will rain in the city P with a minimum temperature of 1 C below zero and a maximum temperature of 6 C. It will be sunny in the city Q with a temperature of 6 C and cloudy in the city R with a temperature of 10 C. Can whole numbers 0, 1, 2, 3, ... represent the situation above?

Key Terms:
integers positive integers negative integers number line

A bird is perching on the top of the mast of a fishermans boat with a height of 3 metres. Meanwhile, the fisherman is diving 5 meters under the sea level.
+5

0 +1 +2 +3 +4 +5 +6

Look

at

the

picture

of

thermometer on the right. What numbers are on the picture? You may write the temperature of 5 degrees above zero as 5 C, and write the temperature of 5 degrees below zero as -5 C. The number 5 is read as positive 5 while the number 5 is read as negative 5. The numbers 5 and -5 can be drawn on a vertical or a horizontal line as follows.

Vertical number line

-5 -5 0 +5

-6

-5 -4 -3 -2 -1
0

Horizontal number line

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A set of integers; ..., 0, 1, 2, 3, ... , can be 3, 2, 1,

symbolized as I. The three dots (...) on the right and the left mean that the numbers continue without ending to both directions. The complete number line of integers can be drawn as follows.

-6 -5 -3 -2 -1 -4

Negative integers Positive integers 0 is neither positive nor negative

Example 1

a. Determine all integers between and 4. 5 Solution: 0, 1, 2, 3 4, 3, 2, 1, b. Write all even integers between and 11. 6 Solution: The even integers between and 11 are 6 4, 0, 2, 4, 6, 8, and 1 2,

Use the number line above, answer the following: What is the number on the left of 0 with the same distance as the distance from 0 to 2? The number is called the inverse of 2. What is the number on the right of 0 with the same distance as the distance from 0 to -4? The number is called the inverse of -4. What is the sum of -4 and its inverse? What is the inverse of 6? What is the inverse of -5? Without using a number line, find the inverse of 12. Without using a number line, find the inverse of 15. Does every integer have an inverse? What is the sum of an integer and its inverse?

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Comparing and Ordering Integers

Suppose 5 and -5 are on a number line. many units are there from 0 to 5? How How many

units are there from 0 to -5? Two numbers are said inverse to each other if they have the same distance from 0 on the number line, but different direction. What are other numbers that inverse to each other? Let 5 and 3 be on a number line. Which number

Remember
= is read equal to < is read less than > is read greater than 3 < 5 is read three is less than five 5 > 3 is read five is greater than three

has a longer distance from 0? Which number has a shorter distance from 0? What other numbers have a shorter distance than 5? What other numbers have a longer distance from 0 than 3? On a horizontal number line, the numbers located on the left side of another number are always less than those on the right side. For instance, since 3 is on the left side of 5, 3 is less than 5, written as 3 < 5. Since 5 is on right side of 3, 5 is greater than 3 or 5 > 3.
-8 -7 -6 -5 -4 -3 -2 -1 0 1 2 3 4 5 6

decrease

increase

What if we use a vertical number line?

Example 2

Change the sign to <, >, or = on 4 7

Solution:
-8 -7 -6 -5 -4 -3 -2 -1 0 1 2 3 4 5 6

The number is located on the right side of 4 7.

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Therefore, > 4 7.
Arrange the following numbers from the least to the greatest. a. 5, 6, 2, 4, 3, 6, 1 b. 9, 6, 5, 12, 17, 8, 14

Problem 1

Problem 2

In a mathematics test, the score for the right answer is 4, for the wrong answer is -1, and 0 for failing to answer. Complete the table below (use a spreadsheet, if possible) and then sort the students based on their scores from the highest to the lowest.
Students Names Abdullah Aminah Galuh Erna Zainul Nabila Zaty Hamidah Yusuf Number of Correct Answers 5 6 5 8 8 8 7 7 Number of Wrong Answers 3 4 2 2 1 0 1 3 Number of Unanswere d Questions 2 0 3 0 1 2 2 0 Total Scor e

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1. Draw a number line.

Put each of the

following numbers on your number line. a. f. 8 2. zero. 3. Write the inverses of the following integers. a. 13 b. 8 4. Write c. 150 three opposing d. 212 pairs of Write an integer expressing a 1 b. 4 c. 7 d. 9 e. 2

temperature of 14 degrees Celsius below

situations. For example, stepping up two steps and stepping down two steps on a staircase. 5. Change the sign to <, >, or =. b. 1 7 c. 12 5 d. 3

a. 0 8 7 e. 66 5 45 45

f.

76 239 g. 999 99 h.

6. Write the following integers from the least to the greatest. a. 2, 3, 4, 1 3, 1 d. 12, 0, 3, 9, 98, 10, 54 e. 1, 0, 11, 101, 111, 101, 11 7. Write the following integers from the least to the greatest. a. 10, 8, 0, 6, 5 b. 56, 56, 40
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b. 3, 2, 0, 7

c. 4, 5, 2,

c. 0, 12, 3, 5, 64 9, 10

d. 75, 3, 4, 12, 0,

8. Write an integer which is between the integers below. a. 7 and 3 b. 0 and 6 9. Critical Thinking. Explain. 10. Critical c. 5 and 13

Why is any negative

integer less than any positive integer?

Thinking.

Write

down

the

steps to determine whether an integer is greater or less than another integer.

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