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Work out|-19|−10=
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Work out|-53|−10=
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Work out|-10|−10=
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Work out|36|−10=
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Work out|-39|−5=
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Work out|30|−2=
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Work out|-44|−2=
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Work out|-38|−2=
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Work out|-49|−7=
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Work out|6|−3=
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Work out|-19|−10=
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Work out|-30|−7=
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Work out|-7|−12=
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Work out|-29|−6=
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Work out|19|−9=
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Work out|-57|−9=
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Work out|12|−12=
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Work out|-8|−8=
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Work out|-53|−9=
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Work out|-48|−4=
Answer key
What is in this set
The numbers in this set run from 2 to 60.
66% of them hold a negative inside the bars.
34% of them hold a positive inside the bars.
A careful solution takes 2 written steps on average.
The mistake this set invites most often, in 66% of the problems: the bars were ignored; they turn whatever is inside into its distance from zero, which is never negative.
Answers are a whole number.
Drawing 240 problems from this page produced 213 different ones, 89% — so a sheet of 20 is a new sheet almost every time.
We would put this in front of a grade 6 class. That is our judgement, not a standard, and it is printed here so you can disagree with it. Everything else we put in that year.