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The temperature at 6:00 P.M. was 3°C. At midnight, the temperature was -2°C.

What real number represents the change in temperature

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Answer:

-5 degrees

Explanation:

In this scenario, since the final temperature was the temperature that existed at midnight then that value is subtracted from the initial temperature which was at 6:00 PM. Therefore we do the following calculation...

(-2) - 3 = x

-5 = x

Finally, we can see that there was a change in temperature of -5 degrees between 6:00 P.M. and Midnight. Meaning that the temperature during this time dropped a total of 5 degrees. Since, real numbers include negatives then the answer to this question is -5 degrees

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