Fill in the blanks to make the following statements true:
$(- 5) + (- 8) = (- 8) + (. . .)$ .

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Solution

LHS
$(- 5) + (- 8)$ = $- 13$
RHS should be equal to LHS .
So, the blank space will be
$(- 13) - (- 8) = - 5$

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