text: # Chapter 9 - Basic Algebra - 9.2 Adding and Subtracting Signed Numbers - 9.2 Exercises - Page 639: 44
  
  Negative eight minus negative five
  
  #### Work Step by Step
  
  In this exercise, we are subtracting negative five from negative eight. Therefore, in words, the statement $-8-(-5)$ can be written as "Negative eight minus negative five."
  
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