if I owe someone $35 and I give them $25 How much money do I still owe them?

Question

if I owe someone $35 and I give them $25 How much money do I still owe them?

Answer 1

You can treat this question as assigning the "owing money" with a negative (-) sign and assigning "paying back" with a positive (+) sign. Therefore, owing $35, i.e. -35 and paying back $25, or +$25 yields the following:

-35 + 25 = -10

Therefore, you still owe $10 because the result is negative (-) and we established that a negative symbol indicates owing money.