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 sum and explain how it is related to the problem.

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Answer 1

1. In this problem, it shows that a football team losses 3 yards of first game and 6 yards for the second play.
To understand more the problem, let’s simplify:
first Play : -3 years which means 3 yards of loss
second play : -6 which means losses 6 yards

So this would be like:
=> -3 + (-6)
=> -3 – 6
=> - 9 So the football team losses 9 yards during their play that makes them the loser.