Question

A number game is played with a number cube and a number line. –10–9–8–7–6–5–4–3–2–1012345678910When it is your turn, you roll the number cube twice. The first roll tells you how many units to move to the left from the starting point. The second roll tells you how many units to move to the right from where you stopped after your first roll.If the starting point is 24, what is your ending point if you roll 5 on the first roll and 3 on the second roll?

Answer 1

22

Explanation:

Since the starting point is 24 and as per the instructions, we need to move to the left (or to the side of numbers lower than 24) on our first roll, after the first roll we would be at 24-5=19.

Since the second roll tells you to move to the right or towards numbers higher than 19 (where we stopped after our first roll), we end up at 22 i.e, 19+3=22.

The left or right notation is line with number line, where left side shows negative numbers or decreasing numbers whereas towards the right, the numbers increase as mentioned in the question.