Handling contacts with iCloud, one person, multiple devices.  Help?

Hi, and thanks for your help.
I want to use iCloud to keep my contacts synced across my iphone 4s, my iPad 2 and, of course, icloud.com. 
I just turned on iCloud on the iPhone 4s and performed a a backup, and now all of the 300 contacts from the iPhone are showing up on icloud.com.  Great, as expected.
But now I want to set up iCloud on my iPad as well.  It has 400 contacts, which are mostly the same as those on my iPhone but with about 100 additional contacts that aren't on my iPhone.
My questions: 
What will happen when I "flip the switch" to turn on iCloud on the iPad? 
How will the additional contacts be handled? 
Will the contacts on the iPad be wiped out and replaced with those now stored on iCloud.com (which would cause me to lose the 100 additional contacts)? 
Will duplicate contacts be created so that no contacts are lost (but forcing me to delete 300 duplicate entries)?
If I have the same contact on both devices but with slight differences (e.g., one has an extra phone number), what will happen with the differences?  Will one be overriden, or will they be treated as separate contacts?
Thanks for your answers!
jbend

No, it will not wipped out your contact but add to it. If you're not sure, you can always do a back up first.
As long as you always used the same Apple ID in both iDevices, everything should be fine.

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