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This flowchart will help you determine what the sign of the answer to an addition or subtraction problem involving integers will be.                   Add the numbers together, the sign will be positive. YES Are both signs positive? NO Are both signs negative? YES Add the numbers together, the sign will be negative. NO     Go back to the first block, you've misread the signs! NO Is 1 sign positive and the other sign negative? YES Is the larger number positive? NO YES       Subtract the numbers, the sign will be negative. Subtract the numbers, the sign will be positive.