a football team loses 3 yards on one play and 6 yards on another play.Write a sum of negative integers to represent this situation.Find the sum and explain how it is related to the problem
The correct answer to this particular question seems easy once you know it. If a football team loses 3 yards on one play and 6 yards on another, the sum of negative integers used to represent this situation would be -3+(-6)
For this case we are going to write the amount of yards lost for each of the games as negative integers.
We have then:
Game 1 = -3
Game 2 = -6
Adding the amount of yards lost for the two games we have:
(-3) + (- 6) = -9
This means that between both games 9 yards were lost
Answer:
(-3) + (- 6) = -9
They lost 9 yards in both games.