Question

A football team loses 4 yards on one play and 7 yards on another play. Write a sum of negative integers to represent this situation. Find the sum and explain how it is related to the problem.

Answer 1

-11 yards

Explanation:

the first loss is represented by -4 and the second loss is represented by -7.

The sum of negative numbers will be:

(-4) + (-7) = -11