Question

At 2:00 AM in Alaska, the temperature was -1°F. The temperature dropped 3 degrees each hour after that. What

was the temperature 3 hours later?
A -8°F
B
-23 F
C -4°F
D-124 F

Answer 1

Answer: -10 degrees

None of those 4 choices are correct

Answer 2

-10* F

Explanation:

What confuses me is that the answers you have provided aren't correct, when I made a number line starting at 0 and ending at -23* F and I had counted three degrees for each hour I got -10* F.

2am 3am 4am 5am

0 -1 -2 -3 -4 -5 -6 -7 -8 -9 -10 -11 -12 -13 -14 -15 -16 -17 -18 -19 -20 -21 -22 -23

2am is at -1* F, 3am is at -4* F, 4am is at -7* F, and 5am is at -10* F.

This is over the course of three hours after 2am so unless I got this wrong you might want to ask your teacher.