NCERT Exemplar Solutions
Class 6 - Mathematics - Unit 3: Integers - Problems and Solutions

Question 73

Step 1. “Ascending order” means smallest to largest.

Step 2. The numbers are: ( -2 ), ( 1 ), ( 0 ), ( -3 ), ( 4 ), ( -5 ).

Step 3. All negative numbers are less than zero. So ( -5 ), ( -3 ), ( -2 ) come before ( 0 ).

Step 4. Among negatives, the one with the bigger absolute value is smaller.

• (|-5| = 5) ⇒ ( -5 ) is the smallest.
• (|-3| = 3) ⇒ ( -3 ) comes next.
• (|-2| = 2) ⇒ ( -2 ) comes after that.

Step 5. Zero is between negatives and positives: ( -2 < 0 ).

Step 6. Positive numbers use normal order: ( 1 < 4 ).

Final order: ( -5, -3, -2, 0, 1, 4 ).