Question

Which shows two expressions that are equivalent to (Negative 7) (Negative 15) (Negative 5) Yan is climbing down a ladder. Each time he descends 4 rungs on the ladder, he stops to see how much farther he has to go. If Yan made 8 stops with no extra steps, which expression best shows another way to write the product of the number of ladder rungs that Yan climbed?

Answer 1

(-8) + (-8) + (-8) + (-8)

Explanation:

Since Yan is descending ; we represent his movement as being negative.

Number of rungs descended before stopping = 4

Number of stops = 8

Given that no extra steps was taken ;

Number of ladder rungs descended :

4 rungs per stop for 8 stops

- 4 * 8 = - 32 rungs

Another way to write the product :

Number of stops added in number of rungs descended :

(-8) + (-8) + (-8) + (-8)