Question

Samuel is playing the Big-Time Builders video game. At the beginning of Samuel's turn, his score was

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14 points. After building a high-rise apartment building, his score rose to 36 points.
What was the change in Samuel's score?

Answer 1

The change in Samuel's score was 50 points (Taking negative 14 as the initial score)

I assume that initially, the score was -14 points and not 14 points, (the dash is ambiguous i.e. it doesn't correspond to the negative sign exactly, so the initial score can easily be +14 points and not -14 as I have taken)

So,

The change in the score is the final score minus the initial score,

Now, the final score was 36 points.

So, the change is,

Change = 36 - (-14)

Change = 50 points