Question

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

Answer 1

Hello,
We observe that if a football team loses 3 yards on one play and 6 yards on another, the sum of negative integers used to represent this situation would be :
-3+(-6)=-9

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