Comparing two positive or negative numbers

Difficulty Standard · Set 6hhzrj

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1
Put in the sign, < > or =:35-11
2
Put in the sign, < > or =:2039
3
Put in the sign, < > or =:-2014
4
Put in the sign, < > or =:18-32
5
Put in the sign, < > or =:3118
6
Put in the sign, < > or =:-35-34
7
Put in the sign, < > or =:19-31
8
Put in the sign, < > or =:-3411
9
Put in the sign, < > or =:-188
10
Put in the sign, < > or =:-519
11
Put in the sign, < > or =:1423
12
Put in the sign, < > or =:22-10
13
Put in the sign, < > or =:3011
14
Put in the sign, < > or =:37-30
15
Put in the sign, < > or =:-1928
16
Put in the sign, < > or =:-4038
17
Put in the sign, < > or =:1714
18
Put in the sign, < > or =:-231
19
Put in the sign, < > or =:-1016
20
Put in the sign, < > or =:18-17

What is in this set

The numbers in this set run from 1 to 40.
47% of them have exactly one negative.
33% of them have no negative in them at all.
A careful solution takes 1 written step on average.
The mistake this set invites most often, in 98% of the problems: the two were compared by size alone.
Answers are a short answer exactly as the problem asks for it.

Drawing 240 problems from this page produced 238 different ones, 99% — so a sheet of 20 is a new sheet almost every time.

The same skill, harder or easier

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.