that you are trying to explain negative numbers to someone who has not met the concept and you are faced with the comment: ‘Negative numbers can’t exist because you can’t have less than nothing.’ How would you reply

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1. Suppose that you are trying to explain negative numbers to someone who has not met the concept and you are faced with the comment: ‘Negative numbers can’t exist because you can’t have less than nothing.’ How would you reply?

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