From Conservative Vector Field to Potential Energy function

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What if when I'm finding the repeated terms from integrating the vector field with respect to x and then y, i come across two terms that are same except one is negative and the other positive. What does that mean, and how do i represent that in the overall potential function I'm finding?
 
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I have no clue what you mean by "two terms that are same except one is negative and the other positive". Could you post a specific example?
 

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