Thinking Mathematically (6th Edition)

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Chapter 5 - Number Theory and the Real Number System - 5.2 The Integers; Order of Operations - Exercise Set 5.2 - Page 271: 137

Answer

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Work Step by Step

I plot the integers on the number line and the number on the left out of the two numbers is the smaller one.
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