Question

Miguel's basketball team is down seven points from their opponents. If they make a two-point field goal, how many more points do they need to tie the game? Justify your answer by writing a number sentence to represent this situation.

Answer 1

Answer: Answer is the steps

Step-by-step explanation:

If they are down by seven points then it means that they are losing by 7 points.And fortunately they made  two-point field goal so they will now be down by 5 points. Which means that they need 5 more points to tie the game.

For example,

-7 represents the points that they are down by and they made 2  points so

-7 + 2 = -5   which means that they are now down by 5 points to make a tie game.

Answer 2

Answer:-7+2+5=0

Step-by-step explanation: