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A football team loses 3 yards on one play and 6 yards on another play. Write a sum of negative intergers to represent this situation. Find the sum and explain how it is related to the problem.
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A football team loses 3 yards on one play and 6 yards on another play. Write a sum of negative intergers to represent this situation. Find the sum and explain how it is related to the problem.

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'loses three yards' as negative expression is -3
'loses six yards' as negative expression is -6

The negative sum is: [-3 + -6] and working this sum we get -9

This means the football team loses 9 yards altogether
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