Thursday, October 7, 2010

Explain a situation where you might need to compare and order integers

          There are several situations when you will need to compare and order integers. Firstly you will have to know what an integers is before comparing or ordering them.An integer is either a positive or negative number including zero. Positive integers are all the whole numbers greater than zero. Negative integers are all negative numbers less than zero.Now that you know what are positive and negative integers lets get to how we compare and order them then, what kind of situations we will have them in. Comparing and ordering integer is quite easy where is some examples. First i will use the positive ones. Comparing: 5<7 -7<-5 notice that 7 is a bigger number so the first example was right but the second one -5 was bigger becuase -7 is smaller than -5. Bascially we can call the negatives under sea level so -7 will be deeper than -5 so -5 would be bigger.Now comparing integers are easy you will just put them in order. Example: you have 5 numbers -6,3,0,-3,4 now to put them in order -6,-3,0,3,4.Now finally there are several situation where you might need this skill. Firstly when you are in math class.Secondly when you owe money and how much money you have.Lastly when you are trying to find the  difference of the depht or height of 2 or more things. Keep in mind there are more situations when you need to compare and order integers!

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