Question

Sam has $10.00 in the bank. He owes his friend Hank $2.25. He owes his sister $1.75. Consider the three rational numbers related to this story of Sam’s money. Write and order them from least to greatest.

Answer 1

`-\$2.25`,
`-\$1.75`,
`+\$10`.

Explanation:

We have been given that Sam has $10.00 in the bank. He owes his friend Hank $2.25. He owes his sister $1.75.

We know that the debt is a negative number, which means that we have to pay some amount to somebody. While the savings represent positive number.

Since Sam has $10.00 in the bank, so it will be positive 10.

Sam owes his friend Hank $2.25, so the amount will be represented by negative 2.25 that is
`-\$2.25`.

Sam owes his sister $1.75, so the amount will be represented by negative 1.75 that is
`-\$1.75`.

We know that more negative number has less value as they are more away from 0.

Since
`-\$1.75` is less negative, so it will be greater than
`-\$2.25`.

Therefore, the given numbers in least to greatest order wold be
`-\$2.25`,
`-\$1.75`,
`+\$10`.

Answer 2

1.75, 2.25 and 6.0

Explanation:

He owes his friend Hank $2.25. He owes his sister $1.75. So, the money left with Sam is 10-(2.25+1.75)= $6.0

therefore the rational numbers related to this story of Sam’s money are 2.25, 1.75 and 6.0

order from least to greatest = 1.75, 2.25 and 6.0