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How do you know that the additive inverse of -20 is 20?

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Nov 22, 2014

A number $N$ 's additive inverse $N'$ is a number that when added to $N$ , will result to the additive identity, which is 0.

$20 + N' = 0$

$=> N' = -20$

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