True or False?
-7 < -6
Draw a number line, and label -7 and -6.
So it's false?
<-- -10 ... -7 -6 ... 0 1 2 ... -->
Numbers are ascending left to right. Is -7 to the left or to the right of -6?
To determine if -7 is less than -6, we can compare the values of -7 and -6. By looking at the number line, we can see that -7 is to the left of -6. Since we read from left to right on the number line, this means that -7 is smaller or less than -6. Therefore, the statement is true.
In general, when comparing two negative numbers, the one with the smaller absolute value is considered to be less than the other.