DO VERY SOON Please solve. Can't figure it out for the life of me and I need to finish his test. Thank you!

Ok, we have the equation:

-7 + (-3)

Both numbers are negative, so the solution of this will be:

-7 + (-3) = -7 - 3 = -10.

Now, how we can represent it with tiles?

First we need to define, which tiles are the ones representing negative numbers?

We can use:

Red = positive

Blue = negative.

Then:

-7 is represented with seven blue tiles

-3 is represented with tree blue tiles

then:

(-7) + (-3)

will be represented with seven blue tiles, plus tree blue tiles.

When we add them, we have a total of 10 blue tiles, and as blue tiles represent negative numbers, 10 blue tiles is equal to -10.