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Locate the integers “-218 and -162” on the number line.![\"\"](\"/userfiles/image/Library/graph_pa65_p57.gif\")
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The numbers on a number line increase as you move from left to right.
\Observe that the number -218 is left to the number -162.
\So -162 is greater than -218 and -218 less than -162
\The symbol for greater than is “>”
\The symbol for less than is “<”
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