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A bird 7 feet in the air flies down to the ground. What integer would you use to represent the change of the bird's position?

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We are trying to represent the change in position of a bird flying down 7 ft to the ground.

Often, for the y axis- up is positive and down is negative.

Change in position is displacement- how far it was from the starting point

( different from distance which is how far is traveled

ex. doubling back would have distance they traveled some distance while the displacement is 0 because they are back to where they started).

The bird is going down 7 ft from where it originally was, which can be represented by

Bird's displacement = -7 ft

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