Question

While playing a game, you move back 5 spaces with your roll of the number cube. Your friend moves forward 3 spaces. Write each amount as an integer.

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Answer 1

Given that While playing a game, you move back 5 spaces with your roll of the number cube. Your friend moves forward 3 spaces. Write each amount as an integer.

Moving back 5 space will be represented with a negative number. Thus the interger that represents moving back 5 spaces is -5.

Moving forward 3 spaces will be represented with a positive number. Thus, the interger that represents moving forward 3 spaces is 3.