Question

What is the answer for this one: If the temperature is 3 degrees and it falls by 12 degrees, what is the new temperature?

Answer 1

Answer:

-9 degrees

Step-by-step explanation:

3-12=-9

Answer 2

Answer:

-9 degrees

Step-by-step explanation:

Just think it through. If it's currently 3 degrees out side and then the temperature drops another 12 degrees, what will the temperature be.

If you're still having trouble visualizing it, picture it on a number line. It becomes:

3-12 = ?

3-12 = -9