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A groundhog crawls out from a hole 3 feet below the surface of the ground. Joan wrote −3 feet to represent the depth from which the groundhog crawls out. What does 0 represent in this situation? the surface
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A groundhog crawls out from a hole 3 feet below the surface of the ground. Joan wrote −3 feet to represent the depth from which the groundhog crawls out. What does 0 represent in this situation?

the surface of the ground
the distance the groundhog crawled
the height above the surface of the ground
the level from which the groundhog crawled out

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Answer:

A is the answer.

Explanation:

User Tommys
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0 represents ground level...the surface of the ground...and anything below it will be negative, just like everything above it will be positive
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