As part of their government class, Maddie and Ryan had to log volunteer hours in their community. Ryan volunteered for one more than three times the number of hours that Maddie did. Altogether, they volunteered in their community for 45 hours, how many hours did Ryan volunteer?

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3+11

14

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from this example, we can see that subtracting with integers is the same as adding the opposite. we can solve using a number line or by using the saying "keep, change, change" to us solve. it is important to remember that we can subtract a negative and end up with a larger number than we started with.