1-8    Negative Numbers

1.    What integer is neither positive nor negative? ___________________________________

2.    Give an example of a number that is not an integer? _____________________________________

3.    What type of number do you call the answer you got in question 2? ___________________________

4.    Give three places where negative numbers occur in real life.

        1. ____________________        2.  ________________________        3.  __________________________
 
 

5.    How is -n read?   _______________________________________

6.    How is -4 read?  ________________________________________

7.    Give a number that is between -5.4 and -5.8.   _______________

8.    Give a number that is between -7.8 and -8.      _______________

9.    Give a number that is between -5.1 and -5.2.    ______________

10.    Give a number that is between -2 and -2.1.     ______________

11.    Give a number that is between -6 and -6.01.   ______________

12.    Give a number that is between -9.99 and -10.  _____________

13.    If I lose 4 pounds one week and lose 2 pounds the second week, what number would
         represent the total amount of weight that I have lost?
                                                                                                 ____________

14.    In football, I ran the ball twice.  On the first run, I gained 8 yards.  On the second,
         I got tackled 4 yards behind the line of scrimage.
            a.)  What number represents my first run?   ____________

            b.)  What number represents my second run?  ___________

            c.)  What number represents my total yardage gained or lost from these two runs?   _____________
 

15.    If you had to lose one of the following amounts of money,
         which would you want to lose?  (Circle your answer)

        -$4.23        -$4.20        -$4.33        -$4.25       -$4.23        -$4.29       -$4.43        -$4.50

 

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