Question

At a weather station in the Artic the temperature was recorded as -23° C.

Two hours later it had fallen by 11° C.
(i) What was the new temperature?
()Four hours after the first readings the temperature was -45° C.
By how much had the temperature fallen in four hours.

Answer 1

(i) -34° C.
(ii) The temperature had fallen by 11° C.

Explanation:

(i) As it's a negative number its like we are adding it so 23 + 11 = 34 and as it is a negative number it would be -23 - 11 = -34 which makes it -34° C.

(ii) We know that the temperature now is -45° C, we need to find out how much the temperature had fallen in the 4 hours which had passed. So what we do is essentially add it considering its a negative number so we add -34 by 11 which equals -45. We do this so we can find out how much the temperature had dropped within the 4 hours and as we know that we needed to add 11 to the previous temperature (-34° C) it means that the temperature has dropped by 11° C.