Question

Yoshio plotted a number on a number line. He wrote the following clues about the number he plotted: The number is an integer. The number lies to the left of 0 on the number line. The number is greater than -4. The opposite of the number is an even number. What is the number that Yoshio plotted?

Answer 1

If the number is to left of 0 in the number line, it is a negative number. If it is greater than -4 we get 3 options -3, -2, -1. And if it is even number, we get that it is -2